Description
Product ID: | 9781612184265 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga |
Title: | In the Land of the Long White Cloud |
Authors: | Author: Sarah Lark, D.W. Lovett |
Page Count: | 667 |
Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer.Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder. She finds an unexpected escape when her father loses a blackjack hand to a mysterious New Zealand baron — and Gwyn’s hand in marriage goes to the baron’s son.The women cross paths on the ship to Christchurch — Helen traveling steerage, Gwyn first class — and form an unlikely friendship, one they’ll rely on when the husbands awaiting them turn out very different than they’d imagined.This nineteenth-century saga of two unforgettable young women — navigating a new world and finding friendship, romance, and adventure at every turn — is as lush and sweeping as the hills of New Zealand themselves. |
Imprint Name: | Amazon Crossing |
Publisher Name: | Amazon Crossing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-08-21 |