Oscar and Lucinda

"You may also be interested in Carey’s earlier Booker Prize-winning novel, Oscar & Lucinda, a love story between a gambling seminarian and a genteel heiress, who meet on a ship bound for the Antipodes and end up attempting to transport a glass chapel through the Australian outback. It too was adapted for the screen , with Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett in the starring roles."