by Tanya Moir
18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand
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First published 2013
© 2013 Tanya Moir
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ISBN 978 1 77553 201 9
eISBN 978 1 77553 202 6
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Cover illustration: Photonewzealand/Darryl Torckler
Cover design: Kate Barraclough
Text design: Megan van Staden
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This publication is printed on paper pulp sourced from sustainably grown and managed forests, using Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) bleaching, and printed with 100% vegetable-based inks.
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From a stunning new voice in historical fiction comes a novel about a stark but beautiful landscape, about challenging social norms and about finding love …
In 1866, Daniel Peterson and his family give up their comfortable life in London for an unseen farm on Banks Peninsula. Daniel plans to make a fortune growing grass-seed; until he does so, there can be no going back. But the realities of a remote hill country block are very different to the cosy imaginings of a clerk.
The Petersons find themselves at the mercy of the land, the weather and their few neighbours — a motley, suspicious assortment of old whalers, escaped convicts, wary French settlers and true-blue Tory squatters. Even their own house has a secret to hide — that of its first inhabitant, the scandalous Etienne La Rochelle and his Maori lover. When Daniel’s daughter Hester discovers La Rochelle’s journal, it leads her on a journey of discovery — a path into a world of beauty, darkness and illicit love, which she may follow if she dares.
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