This is the second is in the three book saga about a founding family in New Zealand. It is a fascinating history and the characters and events are interesting. However, I didn't really like most of these characters much which was disappointing. No one seems to handle events appropriately and t...
This review is from: Song of the Spirits (In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga) (Kindle Edition) I loved the first book "In the Land of the Long White Cloud", but in this book, "Song of the Spirits", I felt that the characters from "Clouds" actually over-shadowed the characters in "Song".I ha...
Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own—but nearing her late twenties and with no dowry, her prospects are dim. Responding to an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand’s honorable bachelors, she corresponds with a gentleman farmer. ...
Even when she had shared it with her family, many rooms had stood empty. Gwyneira had never felt lonely, though—that is, until James and Charlotte died, Jack joined the army, and Gloria disappeared. She fled the empty house to the stables and shearing sheds whenever she could, but now it was June...
She could give several reasons why. For one, she had hardly earned a cent the previous week. There was no business during the mourning period after the mining accident, but she’d heard that Madame Clarisse’s girls continued to get paid. Paddy Holloway’s did not; if Kura did not play, there was no...
And Lizzie had never felt happier.The men from belowdecks recovered slowly from their fevers. Lizzie and the other women still spent many hours washing the sick men, rubbing them with vinegar and gin, and pouring water, tea, and finally some soup into their mouths. To Caroline Bailiff and Anna Po...