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Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own--but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity.
Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, beautiful and daring Gwyneira Silkham, daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder, is bored with high society. But when a mysterious New Zealand baron deals her father an unlucky blackjack hand, Gwyn's hand in marriage is suddenly on the table. Her family is outraged, but Gwyn is thrilled to escape the life laid out for her.
The two women meet on the ship to Christchurch--Helen traveling in steerage, Gwyn first class--and become unlikely friends. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life--and love--they'd hoped for.
Set against the backdrop of colonial nineteenth-century New Zealand, In the Land of the Long White Cloud is a soaring saga of friendship, romance, and unforgettable adventure.
In the exhilarating conclusion to the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials--and triumphs--in New Zealand and beyond.
The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie--who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud--Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family's sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. When her parents send word from Europe that it's time for Gloria to become a proper lady by attending boarding school half a world away in England, Gloria must leave everything and everyone she loves most in the world, including her steadfast protector Jack McKenzie. Wrenched from her beloved homeland and struggling to fit in with the stifling strictures of British boarding-school life, Gloria has never felt more alone. Upon discovering that her parents have no intention of ever sending her home, Gloria takes matters into her own hands and sets off on an adventure that will change her forever.
A stirring coming-of-age tale of love, loss, endurance, shame, and redemption that takes readers from the lush plains of New Zealand's South Island to the bloody shores of Gallipoli, across Australia's Northern Territory and beyond, Call of the Kiwi is a profoundly satisfying conclusion to the saga that has captured readers' hearts across the globe.
In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side.
Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand. Michael is imprisoned for rebellion and exiled to Australia. As time passes and their new lives march on, they long for those stolen moments in the lush green fields of their native land. And they both still dream of escape, with no idea of how close fate will eventually bring them.
In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope--until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister.
On the morning she is to be transported, Luzyna fails to join the chosen group, and Helena takes her place. But the horrors of war--and her guilt at abandoning her sister--follow Helena on the journey across the sea, as a man from her past preys on her fear and remorse.
Though the people in New Zealand embrace her, the traumas Helena has suffered threaten her peace and blind her to the devotion of James, a charming, heroic young Allied pilot. If Helena can let go and dare to hope again, she may finally step out of the long shadow of her past to find a future made whole--a new community, a new family, a new love.
From the author of Toward the Sea of Freedom comes a novel of the triumphs, tragedies, and courage of two women bravely changing the tide of history...
As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women's suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.
Torn between the two worlds that make up her heritage, Matariki Drury is the daughter of a successful white businesswoman and a descendant of Maori royalty. Scarred by poverty and hoping to make a new life for herself in this strange and forbidding land, Violet Paisley is the middle child of a poor Welsh coal-mining family.
Drawn together by their shared commitment to social change, and tested by traumas that neither of them could foresee, these two independent-minded women will find themselves thrust onto the front lines of the fight for equal rights and racial justice. To win their place in this world, they must learn to rise above their personal pain and choose a path of reconciliation rather than retribution.
Sarah Lark's epic Sea of Freedom trilogy reaches its sweeping conclusion in a story of courage, strength, and sisterhood.
The dawning twentieth century brings change to New Zealand--and new opportunities for any woman bold enough to grasp them. Atamarie Turei, whose mother fought for suffrage, has enrolled as the first female student at the Canterbury College of Engineering. On a surveying trip she meets Richard Pearse, who shares her passion for aviation. Being part Maori, part white, and thoroughly independent, Atamarie is soon vilified by Richard's conservative farm community, forcing her to navigate the next step in a liberating life.
Roberta Fence, Atamarie's best friend, has just graduated from college. Obsessed with charismatic, womanizing doctor Kevin Drury, Roberta follows him to South Africa, where their work together in the brutal Boer concentration camps will change her--but not define her.
Soon, Atamarie and Roberta will discover that destiny lies closer to home. There, each woman forges a path through star-crossed love, family upheaval, and a shifting social landscape. And by reconciling ambition with the spirituality of her ancestors, Atamarie endeavors to make her dreams take flight at last.
Magn ficamente escrita y ambientada en la m gica Irlanda, sumerge al lector en la mitolog a, la fantas a y el romance.
Un lago insondable.
Una antigua leyenda del pasado.
Un chico rubio con ojos tan azules como el crep sculo.
El verano en que su madre se marcha de viaje, Viola aprovecha para visitar a su padre en Irlanda. Aunque echa mucho de menos a sus seres queridos, pronto hace amigos y se adapta a su nueva vida. Adem s, un d a, cerca del lago, conoce a un apuesto y enigm tico chico, Ahi, por quien se siente atra da desde el primer momento.
Pero hay algo extra o en l, y Viola siente que no es un ser humano normal.
Cu l es el secreto que se esconde tras su magn tica personalidad?
Viola se adentra cada vez m s en la vor gine de este amor imposible y prohibido, un amor que le pone en peligro mortal...
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Call of Dawn is the first young adult novel by bestselling author Sarah Lark.
Superbly written and set in magical Ireland, it submerges readers into mythology, fantasy, and romance. An unfathomable lake. An old folk legend. A blond boy with eyes as blue as twilight.
The summer her mother leaves on a trip, Viola decides to visit her father in Ireland. Although she misses her loved ones, she soon makes new friends and adapts to her new life. One day near the lake she meets Ahi, a handsome and enigmatic boy whom she feels attracted to at first sight. But there is something strange about him, Viola feels that he is not a normal human being. What is the secret behind his magnetic personality? Little by little Viola goes deeper into the vortex of this impossible and forbidden love, a love that puts her in mortal danger.
The bestselling author of the Sea of Freedom Trilogy returns with a sweeping family saga of two women in nineteenth-century New Zealand and their epic journey to survive in a world of their own making.
It's 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange's family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father's choosing.
For Cat, who came of age in New Zealand under brutal conditions, life in the colonies hasn't been easy. Through a strange turn of events, she is adopted by a native Maori tribe, and she begins to thrive. But when she challenges the traditions of her tribe, she's banished, and left once again to rely on the only person she can trust with her future: herself.
When fate brings Ida and Cat together, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit. Out of common ground grows an enduring friendship that will not be broken by the hardships of the plains, threats from the past, or the trials of family and heartache. What they'll discover is the depth of their own strength and resilience as they get nearer to the freedom they desire and demand. And their journey is just beginning.
Otaki, Isla Norte, 1880. Aroha crece felizmente en la escuela que dirige su madre Linda. Pero, un d a de septiembre, su existencia cambiar radicalmente cuando se convierta en una de lasv ctimas del gran accidente de tren de Nueva Zelanda y sufra una horrorosa experiencia.
En Rat Station, la granja de ovejas de su familia, se restablecer y recuperar la ilusi n. Con ayuda del so ador Robin y de su prima, la temperamental March, se atrever a dar un gran paso y conocer a alguien que dar un giro insospechado a su vida.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The long-awaited last volume of the Trilogy of Fire, Sarah Lark's best family saga. An exciting saga from Sarah Lark, who follows her usual ingredients: a well-documented story and exotic landscapes coupled with the lives of strong and resolute women in absorbent family sagas. A literary work as emotional as it is fascinating. Otaki, North Island, 1880. Aroha grows up happily in the school run by her mother Linda. But, one September day, her life will radically change when she is one of the victims of the great train accident in New Zealand, and suffers a horrifying experience. At Rat Station, her family's sheep farm, she will be able to heal and restore her joy for life. With the help from Robin the dreamer, and her temperamental cousin March, she dares to take a big step, and will meet someone who will unexpectedly turn her life around.