An Independent Woman: Book One of the Redwood Series

by Kate Loveday

Overview

The Redwood Series is a sweeping saga of romance and adventure, spanning many decades in a time when women have few choices and life, and love are not easy.

It is often a spur-of-the-moment decision that can become a turning point in life.

So it is for Kitty Morland, a young woman in London in 1878.

Cheated of her birthright and condemned to a soul-destroying existence, Kitty yields to temptation one fateful day and commits a desperate, criminal act. Realisation of its possible terrifying consequences forces her to flee to the other side of the world, to Australia, taking her widowed mother, Bella, with her.
Fearful that her past will catch up with her she marries William, an English aristocrat, and moves from Sydney to Redwoods in Bulahdelah, a remote logging area in the mid north of New South Wales - a place of red-cedar forests, wild rivers, and the isolation of a pioneer village.

Kitty needs all her courage and determination to survive a loveless marriage, dominated by a husband with a dark side to his character. She realises all too late that the passion she feels for Rufe Cavanagh, a charismatic and entrepreneurial colonial, is reciprocated

Kitty finally has a chance for love and happiness but, torn between love and duty, she must make a difficult decision that will affect the lives of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780646514314
Publisher:	Kathleen Loveday
Publication date:	08/11/2018
Series:	Redwood , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Kate Loveday grew up in a seaside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Her two passions as a child were to spend as much time as possible at the beach, and to curl up with a book. Her love of books never left her.

She always wanted to write, and dabbled a bit, but it was not until an extended caravan holiday around Australia with husband Peter that she began writing in earnest. She started with travel articles about places they visited. When these were accepted for publication by travel magazines she began to write fiction. Her first novels, Inheritance and 'Black Mountain, were inspired by the beautiful, rugged far north of Queensland, and the interesting characters she met there.

A love of history prompted her to research the past of the rural area of the mid north coast of NSW while spending time there. Along the way she looked into the conditions for women in the nineteenth century, when women had few rights and were dominated by the men of the time. This provoked her to write An Independent Woman, the first book in the Redwoods series, which chronicles the life and passions of Kitty Morland, a woman of that era, followed by 'A Liberated Woman' and 'An Ambitious Woman'. This series is set in and around Bulahdelah, an old, historic town situated on the beautiful Myall River.

Her writing career has included publication of travel articles and short stories, as well as novels. She previously worked in real estate and building, as an office manager, and finally as a natural/ beauty therapist, running her own business for many years. She now writes Australian contemporary and historical women's fiction/romance.

When she is not writing she enjoys reading, listening to music, and spending time with husband Peter and her family and friends. She loves chocolate, good food and wine, dogs, music, and seeing new places.

Table of Contents

Title

Other Books By Kate

Acknowledgements

Chapters 1-27

About Kate

Connect with Kate

Editorial Reviews

I do not usually read historical romances, but after reading Kate Loveday’s contemporary Australian romance, Inheritance, I wanted to know if her other works was as good. I think there is there is a richness to her writing. She may be Australia’s answer to Barbara Taylor Bradford. Jeannie Jackson - Reviewer

This is a story of a woman pitted against the ruthless powers of the Victorian age - a legal system that denied a woman's right to her own property if she married and a social structure that expected a woman to submit to even the most bullying of husbands. But Kitty is not the sort of woman to easily admit defeat. With great courage and intelligence, she carves out a new life for herself, though not without tragedy. In the end, she achieves a bitter sweet triumph that will both surprise and satisfy the reader.

Review by Jacqueline Winn Australian Author

It’s a story that is set in the earlier part of Australia’s history and although the formality is there, with people addressing each other as ‘Miss Morland’ or ‘Mr Cavanagh’ the story is totally absorbing.

Kate Loveday writes beautifully, in a free-flowing, easy to read style. Her writing is pleasantly descriptive and the reader can see the setting of each scene as easily as if they were in the book themselves. Sarah Cook, Reviewer & Freelance Editor

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