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A Gathering Light
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| NZ$ 19.95 each |
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| Author: Jennifer Donnelly |
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When hotel waitress Mattie is given letters by a woman who is later found drowned in the nearby lake, she is forced to reconsider her future in the small rural community in which she has always lived. Will she leave her careworn, widowed father and younger brothers and sisters? Will she be happy marrying the son of their farmer neighbours or does he have a hidden agenda? Or will she follow her teacher and mentor, the "notorious" Ms Wilcox, and seek a college education and independence in turn-of-the-20th-century America?
Donnelly has based her first novel on a true murder mystery, but has incorporated man social injustices, such as women's rights and racism, into an outstanding and wonderfully satisfying story of a young woman's coming of age. The uncovering of secrets in her narrow-minded community, plus the terrible truth in the letters she had promised to destroy, give Mattie the courage to decide whether justice should be done,
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A Respectable Girl
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| Author: Fleur Beale |
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A Young Adult historical romance novel set in both New Zealand and England during the 19th century. The main character is Hannah, a strong Elizabeth Bennett-like personality, who lives in Taranaki with her father, twin brother, Maori step-mother and step-brother during the time of the land wars. Hannah and her twin, Jamie, travel to England, for a number of reasons - one of which is to find the family of their dead mother. There they encounter the culture shock of upper-class English county behaviour. In Hannah's search for her own identity and for the truth about the mother she has never known,she needs all her stubborn independence to survive. There are many fascinating aspects to the book: the Pakeha/Maori racial clash of the time; a young teenager's growing knowledge of the world around her - romance, marriage, work, the purpose of life, racism, death; the striking differences between the freedom of New Zealand and the constraints
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