The book to be discussed is:-
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda is a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary. A novel which tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and for Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives are changed for ever.
Every one is welcome.
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