How I Pawned My Opals and Other Lost Stories

Nell has a friend in need, but will her kind heart wreck her chance for future happiness? A meddlesome prank and a stray kitten, bring Helen and Gabriel together, but will he be able to admit his feelings? When Lily goes missing, will Archibald trust his wife or listen to the 'evidence' of family friends? Is Marie's runaway kookaburra the last straw or the answer to her problems? Will Teresa's faith in the Madonna bring her beloved Carlo home safely from the coral fishing?
Catherine Martin's loyal, willful and feisty heroines traverse the terrains of romance in Italy, Switzerland and Australia in these nineteenth-century tales of manners.