Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter: An Atmospheric Historical Mystery With a Courageous Heroine Intent on the Truth

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Set on the northern coast of Western Australia, Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter takes place during 1886. Beautifully immersive and undeniably moving, Lizzie Pook’s Australian Centred, historical debut was an absolutely breathtaking read! Narrating the story is the Angel of Truth, whom according to a parable God had cast out of heaven and onto earth, where Truth shattered into billions of pieces, each to lodge in a human heart. I thoroughly enjoyed Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter and recommend it highly to fans of historical fiction, particularly that set in Australia.

Palmer doesn’t listen but, in any case, the young man soon escapes from the jail and melts back into the unforgiving landscape.The era, the location and the culture would indicate that she should "behave" in a rather more seemly fashion than she does! Knowing how rare the quality of their relationship is sharpens the intensity of Martha’s gaze as she watches the romantic lives of her grown children unfold. Apology to the author on her debut book but the overly descriptive writing choked me and choked the story and I couldn’t go on after about 70+ pages.

The pace was cracking and Eliza was very much her own woman - strong and fearless and loyal to a fault.However, Eliza does not believe Charlie is dead, and goes to visit the obnoxious and racist Sergeant Archibald Parker at the gaol, he has arrested the Aboriginal Billy Balarri, who could not have had anything to do with her missing father.

They land in 1886 on the blood-red sands of Bannin Bay, a fictional stand-in for Broome — and like the real town, simultaneously cosmopolitan and isolated, over a thousand miles from the region’s capital. Those who know him know he has never told a lie in his life—“Never be the one to tell lies, Nico,” his grandfather teaches him.Where the author excels with her vivid descriptions of the dry Kimberly landscape, the community’s streets and residents, and the changing conditions of the sea, effortlessly evoking harsh heat, salt air and crashing waves.