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A review by shelleybaird
The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh
4.0
Once again Fiona McIntosh has shown why she is one of Australia's best and favourite storytellers. The Diamond Hunter is a wonderful story of all types of love - familial, romantic, and the love that develops when your chosen family is not blood born. Each character expresses this love through their own strong and distinctive voice. The ability to create such vivid characters is a skill Fiona McIntosh wields with ultimate precision in everything she writes.
Reading this story takes you on a journey to Africa and London in the late 1800s - a time of radical discoveries and the changes that spring from these discoveries. They say diamonds are a girl's best friend but reading this story, it appears they're man's best friend too! Impeccably researched, The Diamond Hunter is a gorgeous read that offers the glorious combination of armchair travel to another time and place.
Sidebar - I often purchase Fiona's books when they are released but hold onto them until I know I have a day or two to just dive in and read from start to finish uninterrupted - they are that good! So I bought this in October 2019 but saved it and it paid off (again) - I read this during the COVID-19 crisis and it was the perfect escape!
Reading this story takes you on a journey to Africa and London in the late 1800s - a time of radical discoveries and the changes that spring from these discoveries. They say diamonds are a girl's best friend but reading this story, it appears they're man's best friend too! Impeccably researched, The Diamond Hunter is a gorgeous read that offers the glorious combination of armchair travel to another time and place.
Sidebar - I often purchase Fiona's books when they are released but hold onto them until I know I have a day or two to just dive in and read from start to finish uninterrupted - they are that good! So I bought this in October 2019 but saved it and it paid off (again) - I read this during the COVID-19 crisis and it was the perfect escape!