Daughter of Fortune
1998 • 399 pages

Ratings36

Average rating3.8

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A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel


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Series

Series

3 primary books

#1 in Involuntary trilogy

Involuntary trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Isabel Allende.

#1
Daughter of Fortune
#2
Portret w sepii
#3
The House of the Spirits

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My first Allende. Nothing special - your basic historical fiction. I'd still like to read The House of the Spirits.

November 20, 2007

3.5

April 2, 2024

Good story with great character development, but it just felt slow.

September 15, 2016