Oscar & Lucinda tells the story of an unlikey romance between Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both gamblers, one obsessive the other compulsive. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast. This bet changes both their lives forever. Oscar and Lucinda is a tale of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.
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