Great act of love. Heather Rose. 2025.

Van Dieman’s Land, 1839.

A young woman of means arrives in Hobart, with a young boy in her care. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on this island of extreme seasons and wild beauty. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light.

Soaring from the champagne vineyards of revolutionary France to London and early colonial Australia, Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel of legacy, passion and reinvention. At its heart is a family with champagne in ther blood and. Fearless daughter determined to rewrite fate.