“The Scent of Oranges is a captivating tale of love, sacrifice, and the battle between good and evil, and showcases the power of compassion in a world tainted by darkness.”
Harlequin Publishers
The Scent of Oranges
A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks.
Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of Fagin's child pickpockets and now on the arm of violent and mercurial Bill Sikes. Nancy does what she must to get by. She's attuned to the harsh realities of life, but also knows how to find moments of beauty amid the grime, even if it is only the scent and taste of an orange - its miraculous colour and form.
When she embarks on a relationship with enigmatic gentleman Mr Rufus, it awakens emotions she's never felt before, and makes a better life feel possible for the first time. But when she takes cherubic orphan Oliver Twist under her wing, something even more elusive and appealing seems to be within reach: redemption.
This captivating tale of love, sacrifice, and the battle between good and evil showcases the power of compassion in a world tainted by darkness.
COMING SOON
Kathy George interview with Cheryl Akle
Better Reading Podcast
“Why I wrote about Nancy”
Kathy George
“Bittersweet and heart-achingly lovely”
Karen Brooks
Kathy George
on ABC Radio Wide Bay
Q+A with Kathy George
Q Weekend Magazine
Estella
About the Book
'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dicken's Great Expectations.'
Karen Brooks, author
The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks.
Reviews for Estella
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"It takes great courage, skill and artistry, to broach the mastery of Dickens and lean into his superbly written worlds to create one’s own. And yet, award-winning author Kathy George has succeeded with deep sensitivity, respect and care, to offer up a retelling from one of Dickens's often misunderstood and overlooked characters."
Better Reading
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"A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations."
Karen Brooks, author
is a mesmerising Australian novel that echoes the great gothic stories of love and hate: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and especially Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
'So beautifully written, so skilfully plotted, such a masterpiece of tension and atmosphere.'
Australian Book Review
Reviews for Sargasso
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"Dark, unsettling and utterly enthralling, Sargasso is a suspenseful page-turner that builds to an incredible and shocking end."
Better Reading
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"It is a poetic, atmospheric story of love and obsession and the blurred landscape between reality and imagination."
Poppy Gee, author of Vanishing Falls
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"Shades of du Maurier's Rebecca in this riveting, atmospheric mystery. Compelling."
Téa Cooper, author of The Cartographer’s Secret
Hello, welcome to my website. I am the author of The Scent of Oranges, Estella and Sargasso. I’ve always been drawn to tortured, complex and intense characters, my all-time favourite being Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. I write dark, mysterious and compelling stories and I write because it makes me happy. Most weekends you’ll find me by the sea.
ABOUT KATHY
