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A Great Act of Love

By: Heather Rose
Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
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From the award-winning author of The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny comes an enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne.

Caroline will tell the story of how she came to Tasmania, when it was still called Van Diemen's Land, many times. She will cast her inventions into the future. Those who carry them on will call it history, but she will call it her life.

Van Diemen's Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on this island of extreme seasons and wild beauty. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude, it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light.

Soaring from the champagne vineyards of revolutionary France to London and early colonial Australia, A Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel of legacy, passion and reinvention. At its heart is a family with champagne in their blood and a fearless daughter determined to rewrite fate.

Inspired by true events, A Great Act of Love is an immensely beautiful and heartrending saga of a father and daughter, and the enduring power of familial love.

©2025 Heather Rose (P)2025 W. F. Howes ltd. and Allen & Unwin Action & Adventure Historical Fiction World Literature Heartfelt Inspiring
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The ending of this beautiful novel didn't satisfy me at all.
That's not the comment of a professional reviewer - because I am about as far from being such as is possible - It's an opinion written by a demanding ancient who likes things to be ... well, how she likes them.
I realised after I'd thought about it a bit, having finished the book, that the ending of "The Butterfly Man" wasn't really satisfying, either.
Does Heather have problems in wrapping up her magical novels ?
Because they really are wonderful, her historical novels - as is "Bruny", btw: and I didn't have problems with that ending.
She's the kind of writer who causes me to scratch my head in wonderment at her ability with plots and characters - how is it even possible to have so much imagination ?!
Right up to the novel's last voyage I was in thrall; but not thereafter.

I love Heather Rose, but ...

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The Signature of All Things was one of my favourite novels.
This is as good as that.
Female led fabulous characters who take us through history they way William Boyd’s novels do.
Edinburgh, France in the time of the revolution, slavery in the US and Panama yet c entering on Tasmania, Van Diemans land and the early British colony.
An emotional read.

The narrator is fabulous. Great English, French and even a variety of Scottish accents. I don’t think I’ve ever heard such a good Edinburgh accent.
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A truly memorable read/listen.

Epic Story, Fabulous Narration

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The story reflects how significant and at the same time insignificant our lives are - the ending is not what I expected and as I listened on audio I relistened to the last two chapters once I had finished - I am still thinking about it

The beautiful and descriptive writing

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This is mesmerising and full of twists and turns. Caroline Douglas leaves London and embarks on a journey to colonial Australia in the early 1800’s as a mysterious wealthy young widow. A cast of vivid characters abound, unlikely people peculiarly human. The free and the convicted, the guilty and innocent , France, England and colonial Australia all entwined. This is a rare gem of generations, family, nature, philosophy and the making of champagne. I am off to read the actual book. The words are worth studying . The most fascinating historical fiction I’ve read since Hamnet.

An international classic …

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