• Lucinda Brayford
  • Author : Martin Boyd
  • Publisher : The Cresset Press
  • Publication Date : 1946
  • Genre : Novel
  • Pages : 546
  • First Edition : Yes
  • Binding : Hardback
  • Dustwrapper : Yes
  • Comments : First edition with fragile rare dust wrapper, signed by author
  • Summary : The story of a beautiful woman set mainly in Melbourne, Victoria and England from the early 1900s to the Second World War. Lucinda Vane was born into a wealthy Melbourne family. She spurns the love of a distinguished family friend, Tony Duff, to marry the dashing Aide-de-camp to the Governor, Hugo Brayford. Lucinda's life of ease is replaced by hardship when Hugo takes her to England just before the first World War. She then realises that her husband married her for her money, and he has a mistress. Famous Australian opera singer Nellie Melba appears in the 1946 novel Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd. She is depicted as singing at a garden party thrown by the mother of the eponymous heroine, when she is described as having the "loveliest voice in the world"
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