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Olivia & Sophia Author: Rosie Milne

ISBN: 9789814625272 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 432 Published: 8 March 2016 Country of Publication: SG Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.1 Description: When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty with a scandalous past. She infatuates both his closest friend, a poet, and one of his bitterest rivals, a soldier. Raffles sees what is going on, but he turns a blind eye - or so hopes Olivia.

After Olivia's death, and back on leave in London, Raffles, a man once again in need of a wife, makes a practical marriage. Sophia, no beauty, but curious and intelligent, embraces the opportunity of an exciting life abroad. Marriage brings her great joy but also great sadness. Her life with Raffles becomes a catalogue of loss: of their children, of their possessions, of their savings. And all the while, Raffles, driven and talented, manoeuvres at the centre of global networks of power, trade, politics and diplomacy. His scheming culminates, to his eventual glory, with the founding of a new trading post: Singapore.

About the Author

Rosie Milne is a journalist and the author of two novels (published by Pan in 2002 and 2005) and she divides her time between Si...

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