Share this postSunday Cinema lovewithstrangers.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherSunday Cinema Oscar and LucindaWylie GarciaOct 09, 2022Share this postSunday Cinema lovewithstrangers.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherShareOscar and Lucinda, 1997 by Gillian ArmstrongIn mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.Love with Strangers is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Subscribe