"Oscar and Lucinda" is a tale that will transport you to the 19th-century seascape bridging England and Australia, entangling you in a deeply human story of passion, ambition, and the complexities of faith and love. It's not just the historical details that will captivate you, but the sheer unpredictability of Oscar and Lucinda's journey, both physical and emotional, that renders this book a classic. If you enjoy vivid historical settings combined with intricate human relationships, this might just be your next favorite read.

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• Booker Prize (1988)
• Miles Franklin Literary Award (1989)
• National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1989)
• Colin Roderick Award (1988)
• The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008)

Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.

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