By Guy McCrone
The Wax Fruit Trilogy brings jointly man McCrone’s 3 vintage novels, Antimacassar urban, The Philistines, and The Puritans, which chronicle the existence and instances of the Moorhouse relatives as they upward thrust from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to a place of significant prosperity in Victorian Glasgow.
The first a part of the trilogy introduces the Moorhouse kin – Arthur, the winning enterprise guy and primary of the kin to maneuver to Glasgow; David, the rushing and impulsive socialite; Bel, pushed via ruthless social ambition; and Phoebe, the half-sister from the Highlands who grows as much as be an excellent good looks.
The moment and 3rd volumes stick to the altering fortunes of the kin, as their lives are touched via triumph and tragedy – in Glasgow on the peak of the Victorian period, and in Vienna, glittering capital of the Hapsburg Empire.
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