Kathleen Thompson Norris

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In old San Francisco, in the era of the elegant boardinghouse and the great Spanish ranches, two vastly different women—intimate friends—fall disastrously in love with the same man. Harriet Townshend had a mop of flaming red curls, was dainty, vivacious, and flirtatious, and the most eligible bachelors in town were at her feet. Coralia Suarez, wealthy young widow and owner of the Corazón d’Oro ranch, had been forced by her family into marriage after an abortive love affair. Freed by her husband’s death, Coralia met Harriet, the young Irish beauty whose mother owned the most fashionable boardinghouse in San Francisco, and the two became great friends—until the handsome Philip Haagersen appeared.

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From Goodreads: Denton Welch's first novel Maiden Voyage (1946) recounts Welch's adventures as a boy when, after running away from his English public school, he was sent to Shanghai to live with his father for a year. Welch's keen observations - of his tortured relationship with his distant father, and the colonial milieu of pre-war China - dominate this painfully honest narrative. Exact Change's publication of Maiden Voyage marks the bringing back into print of all three of Denton Welch's novels, a cause for celebration among the growing number of fans who have embraced his beautiful and courageous writing.