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to the world of My Australian Prince .... an inimitable story
of Alain James Goldenbough of Western Australia that
will entertain and stir you, touch your emotions,
and test your mentality
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His
famous colourful posy since the age of ten is the symbol of his
high regard for women and the New Mothers Paradise his
brainchild.
For his only love Elizabeth Sinclair, he reserves the red rose-posy
and he leads them both to a vow of virginity.
Alain James Goldenbough, endowed with magnetic handsomeness and
intelligence, is born in 1960 into Western Australia's richest
family. Their wealth emanates from the 1893 Gold Rush of the famed
mining twin-towns of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Together
with Elizabeth, he is to face his two legacies - the only-child
Goldenbough Australian ancestry and his maternal Montagne
French heritage. Elizabeth must help him... but it seems that
his heart that softens to women's needs will not know the mysteries
beneath Elizabeth's crescent smile and lake-look aquamarine eyes.
He will not know either the versatile schemes of his two rivaling
grandfathers - Pop Sir William Goldenbough of Australia and Papy
Vincent Montagne of France - nor the mysterious family in France
that sets to destroy him - all embedded in his two legacies.
Those
two legacies will pound and crumble him to his limits, bringing
him out to the extraordinary, away from the typical Australian
laid-back personality.
Spanned
across three-and-a-half decades, My
Australian Prince sets itself mainly in ruggedly beautiful
Kalgoorlie of Western Australia
and the delicate splendour of Paris outskirts' antiquity.
EXCERPTS
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE WHOLE BOOK
FRONT PAGES
1-2. A twin-page list of Places – that clearly separates the non-fiction. called (1) Acknowledgments of the Use of Names from the fiction, called (2) Names Exclusive to My Australian Prince.
3. A family chart called The Goldenbough Only-Child Ancestry – that directly traces Alain James Goldenbough’s only-child lineage, a burden that Sir William Goldenbough carries in his soul, pushing him to manipulate deceitfully a plan to keep Alain in their Goldenbough Homestead located in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. How can a prestigious man of great reputaton undertake such a plan?
And how is he going to stop Alain’s free spirit that wants to flee from Kalgoorie, 600 kilometres away from his most-loved Western Australia’s capital city of Perth?
How is Sir William going to face the threats that Alain’s maternal heritage poses against his plan to keep Alain with the rest of the Goldenboughs in his Kalgoorlie Homestead?
How is Sir William going to overcome the power of Alain’s rivaling maternal grandfather Vincent Montagne, a power that glues around even after Montagne's death?
4. The current Goldenbough Family Book – that presents their birth years, the Goldenbough-wives’ multicultural origins, their wedding years, their children, and the beautiful names of each of their Goldenbough Homestead houses.
BACK PAGES
Glossary – gives simple definitions of names used in My Australian Prince. Further knowledge may be obtained from reference books. An example: The birds that Alain and his bird-watching family find in Kalgoorlie may also be found in other parts of Australia.
Annexes – French Words and Phrases and Food, Filipino Words and Food
Acknowledgements – Topic Knowledge – that specifically thank the people who have extended their help in each of their expertise.
Reference Books
Notes on Punctuation Marks – a helpful understanding of writing style that brings out comfortable and effective reading.
The Author – a short profile of Elmie Sumera Yan. |
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In easy-read format
A
Modern Classic of adventure, cultures,
love and romance, family saga ....
the dynamic lives of the
Goldenbough migrants ...
Warra, the wise Aboriginal Elder ...
and the sleeping Kingdom from afar.
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Meet the Characters
As You Embark On Your Journey
- Alain James Goldenbough - the handsome and intellectual and spoiled only child but kind with a heart that softens to women who receive from him personally the rose-posies that he himself assembles.
- Elizabeth - beautiful, an artist, the only love Alain has and will ever have, whose crescent smiles and lake-look aquamarine eyes he fails to understand the meanings of and whom he leads to a vow of virginity. Is that possible for a man of Alain's status?
- Pop Sir William Goldenbough of Australia and Papy Vincent Montagne of France - Alain's rivaling grandfathers whose versatile schemes defeat all the purposes of their love for Alain.
- Antonio - Alain's father-like figure whom he calls Papa Antonio. Is Antonio pure as Alain thinks he is?
- Warra - the Aboriginal wise elder whose name means "water" who keeps an enduring friendship with Sir William.
- the mysterious family in France that sets to destroy Alain - all embedded in his two legacies.
- the Goldenbough migrant-wives - Italian, French, Greek, Chinese - How do they adapt to the country-Australia whose accents are impossible to follow - even to mimic?
- Lady Claudia - Sir William's wife, much-loved by her daughters-in-law, who never shows any nastiness that comes along with the title mother-in-law.
- the Filipino family whom Alain discovers to be living on an island, secretly, that he inherits through a weave of ownership.
- the Nuns in the convents that give recluse to Elizabeth. Why will she need them?
- Anthony - a villain, handsome and faithful to the only woman he will ever love. Will Alain give up his pride and life to him?
- the Goldenbough cousins - who will never desert their favourite cousin Alain, the sole only-child and with golden hair amongst them.
- the rest of the Goldenboughs.
- Sue - the faithful housekeeper to Alain and Elizabeth. But why should she be ordered to leave the Goldenbough estate, just as when the mysteries and ordeals are about to clear up the air?
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Latest update : 18th April 2012
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