The Woman in the Green Dress

De: Tea Cooper

Narrado por: Casey Withoos

USA Today Best Seller!

A cursed opal, a gnarled family tree, and a sinister woman in a green dress emerge in the aftermath of World War I.

After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress Fleur Richards can’t wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune. Refusing to accept the inheritance, she heads to his beloved home country of Australia in search of the relatives who deserve it more.

In spite of her reluctance, she soon finds herself the sole owner of a remote farm and a dilapidated curio shop full of long-forgotten artifacts, remarkable preserved creatures, and a mystery that began more than sixty-five years ago. With the help of Kip, a repatriated soldier dealing with the sobering aftereffects of war, Fleur finds herself unable to resist pulling on the threads of the past. What she finds is a shocking story surrounding an opal and a woman in a green dress...a story that, nevertheless, offers hope and healing for the future.

This romantic mystery from award-winning Australian novelist Tea Cooper will keep readers guessing until the astonishing conclusion.

“Readers of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams will be dazzled. The Woman in the Green Dress spins readers into an evocative world of mystery and romance in this deeply researched book by Tea Cooper. There is a Dickensian flair to Cooper’s carefully constructed world of lost inheritances and found treasures as two indomitable women stretched across centuries work to reconcile their pasts while reclaiming love, identity and belonging against two richly moving historical settings. As soon as you turn the last page you want to start again just to see how every last thread is sewn in anticipation of its thrilling conclusion. One of the most intelligent, visceral and vibrant historical reads I have had the privilege of visiting in an age.” (Rachel McMillan, author of The London Restoration)

“Refreshing and unique, The Woman in the Green Dress sweeps you across the wild lands of Australia in a thrilling whirl of mystery, romance, and danger. This magical tale weaves together two storylines with a heart-pounding finish that is drop-dead gorgeous.” (J’nell Ciesielski, author of The Socialite)

• USA Today best seller!
• Full-length historical story with both romance and mystery
• Stand-alone novel
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs

©2020 Tea Cooper (P)2020 Thomas Nelson

Setting

Liked the two time periods that the story covered and the skill of holding the reader's interest by having some mysteries.

Rich Characters

The way the story was woven together, 60 years apart, was very clever. The ending was quite satisfying too. Well worth the investment.

very good story

loved this story. I would love to see this as a movie. I would Definitely watch it.

Wonderful concept sadly under-developed

The author has some wonderful themes - Australian Aborigines, WW1 and soldier repatriation, opal mining, and just Australian history in general, but disappointingly none of the themes are fully developed.
We the readers are left wanting so much much more than was delivered. I believe I’ll have to listen to a book by Bryce Courtenay now just to get my Australian fix.

Great story and performance

I really enjoy reading Tea Cooper’s books. She has the great talent to weave two stories that result in a great read. I’ve learned so much about Australia’s history by reading her books. Two books down and on to her third book and and anticipating the release of her fourth one!

Reading might be better

I really enjoyed this book, but being able to flip back-and-forth in a real paper book, would have been better for me. I always wanted to go back and check what had happened the last time I left the 1800s or the 1900s, and that’s hard to do on an audible book. Great story though. My first with a setting in Australia, and I quite enjoyed seeing it through early settlers eyes.

Women in green Dress audible book

Good and interesting time in history
Also interesting background about Australia Opels
Love Opels wow

Woman in the green dress

I enjoyed the the past and present dialogue between chapters. This kept my attention completely.
Did kip and Fleur become romantically involved???

Quite intriguing.

What a fascinating story. Australian history is not my strength and I learned so much reading through this mystery involving several families in Australia about forty years before and just after WWI Armistice in 1918. Author Cooper weaves several seemingly separate stories within the time of 1853 and the time of 1918/1919 as a young grieving English widow comes to Australia in search of her deceased Australian husband's family. The stories and their mysteries are told in a back and forth fashion yet Ms. Cooper deftly manages the changes and the dangling of hints as to how the stories somehow make sense together. Enticing characters, Australian history, and an engagingly frustrating mystery - what more could I want. Also, Casey Withoos as narrator was outstanding.

Intriguing

Really enjoyed the twists and turns. Well written and well performed. I recommend this book well worth the credit!