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The Pride of the Peacock

Victoria Holt demonstrates her mastery once again in her most exciting novel set in turn-of-the-century England where a young woman grows up in the shadow of the great estate — and privileged way of life — that was once her family's birthright. But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. There she will discover the mysteries — and evil — surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband — and there she must find love.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780449213520
  • Characters
  • Jessica Clavering
  • Settings
  • Australia
  • Genres
  • romance, gothic, mystery, fiction, historical, australia
  • Release date
  • 1983