| Title | : | In the Land of the Long White Cloud: In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga, Book 1 (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Sarah Lark & D.W Lovett - translator |
| Release | : | 2012-08-21 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | In the Land of the Long White Cloud: In | Sarah Lark & D.W Lovett - translator |
| 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. |
