![]() The action travels through real-life locations on New Zealand’s South Island: Christchurch, the Southern Alps, the mining towns of towns of Kaniere and Hokitika. ![]() We meet scam artists and hustlers, good-hearted miners, tribal Māori, some settlers who are decent, and many who are not. ![]() When Joseph discovers a glimmer of gold in his creekbed, it becomes a desperate secret and a dangerous catalyst for everything that happens next.Īuthor Rose Tremain weaves authentic details into the story, fully immersing us in the grit and perils of the gold rush days. ![]() Desperately trying to scrape a living out of the hard-packed soil. And now the three of them are stuck with each other. But it soon becomes clear that all three of them are fleeing from events in their past, more than they’re running toward something fresh and good. It should be an optimistic and exciting time: new land, new opportunity. When the story begins, newlyweds Joseph and Harriet have recently emigrated from England to New Zealand with Joseph’s mother in tow. ![]() When her husband gets caught up in the gold rush fever of hunting for ‘the colour,’ she finds her own well of strength she never knew she possessed. The wilds of New Zealand are not a nice place for a lady to find herself in the 1860s - but, it turns out, Harriet Blackstone is no ordinary lady. ![]()
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