About the series
South Australia, 1839. A young widow in debt to her church takes up a farm in the new village of Hahndorf. The spring on her land is also the yearly camp of a Peramangk family, and the land agent wants it fenced in. She and a man of that family make a quiet bargain over the water that neither of them has told anyone about. Every book follows a new couple, ends on its own happy ending and can be read alone.
At a glance
- Genre
- Romance
- Mood
- Emotional
- Setting and era
- 19th century
- Pace
- Slow
- Point of view
- Third person
- Reading order
- Read in order
- Heat
- Warm
The books in order
3 books
Book 1Start here
South Australia, March 1839. Rosina Wendlandt, a widow of twenty-eight, owes her church twenty-three pounds and has just taken a farm where a Peramangk family has camped by the spring every year. Then the land agent turns up with plans to fence the water.
Book 2
Marlene comes back to Lobethal for three days: sell her grandmother’s run-down vineyard, sign at the notary, leave. But the man who has farmed the land for years treats it as his own, and the closer the sale gets, the harder it is to go.
Book 3
At the well of Bethanien, whoever drinks from another family’s well leaves a loaf at its edge, a rule no law writes down. When the colonial administration starts to survey the water, the woman between two worlds must choose between staying silent and being seen.
Where are you in the series?
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Book 1
Die Quelle von Hahndorf
South Australia, March 1839. Rosina Wendlandt, a widow of twenty-eight, owes her church twenty-three pounds and has just taken a farm where a Peramangk family has camped by the spring every year. Then the land agent turns up with plans to fence the water.
Book 2
Das Feuer von Lobethal
Marlene comes back to Lobethal for three days: sell her grandmother’s run-down vineyard, sign at the notary, leave. But the man who has farmed the land for years treats it as his own, and the closer the sale gets, the harder it is to go.
Book 3
Der Brunnen von Bethanien
At the well of Bethanien, whoever drinks from another family’s well leaves a loaf at its edge, a rule no law writes down. When the colonial administration starts to survey the water, the woman between two worlds must choose between staying silent and being seen.
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Get the series
Book 1Die Quelle von Hahndorf
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Book 2Das Feuer von Lobethal
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Book 3Der Brunnen von Bethanien
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Questions
Do I have to read the books in order?
Yes. Each book gives away how the earlier ones end, so read them in the order they are listed.
Where do I start?
With Book 1, Die Quelle von Hahndorf.
How many books are there?
The series has 3 books. It is complete.
About Clara Wynford
Clara Wynford writes historical novels about promises, kept on paper or without it. In London before Waterloo, cipher-breakers and forgers work for a secret league behind a bookbindery near St James’s. In South Australia, German settlers build lives around a spring, a vineyard and a well, and the old rights that come with them. Each book has a new couple and stands on its own.