Love Lies Waiting

A haunting, evocative and parallel love story set in two vastly different periods of time, in Sydney at the end of the 20th century and laced with threads of 19th century England and Sydney life in the colonies in the 1800's.Emma Donnithorne, a modern Sydney woman with a promising law career which fulfills her in a way that her disappointing relationship with her boyfriend is unable to, is about to lose control of life as she knows it. When she unexpectedly inherits an enormous but...
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A haunting, evocative and parallel love story set in two vastly different periods of time, in Sydney at the end of the 20th century and laced with threads of 19th century England and Sydney life in the colonies in the 1800's.Emma Donnithorne, a modern Sydney woman with a promising law career which fulfills her in a way that her disappointing relationship with her boyfriend is unable to, is about to lose control of life as she knows it. When she unexpectedly inherits an enormous but dilapidated old house and gardens in the suburb of Newtown in Sydney upon the death of her great-grandmother and guardian, Edith Donnithorne McLaren, including trunks containing the poignant diaries of an ancestor she had previously not known existed, it is to irretrievably alter the path of her life. The death of her great-grandmother, in addition to other dramatic events unfolding in Emma's personal life, heralds some major decision making regarding her volatile relationship with her boyfriend, Dave. There are some surprises in store for Emma however as she learns to trust again and finds herself falling deeply in love with Edith's solicitor, Roland Brooks, as she focuses on restoring Camperdown Lodge, the home she has inherited from her great-grandmother, to its former glory. Through reading the diaries of her ancestor, Eliza Donnithorne, Emma is propelled into a vivid, intense and tumultuous account of her tragic life. As she becomes intimately acquainted with Eliza, she feels she is emotionally, spiritually and mentally walking the journey of her ancestor's falling in love, and eventual heartbreak and loss with her. All the while that Emma is renovating Camperdown Lodge, she becomes increasingly aware of Eliza's strong presence and how close she has become to her. Emma realizes that although she is the one breathing new life into the beautiful old home, it seems that her ancestor, Eliza, has never left.....