This is a book that charms its way into your heart!
Set largely in Taranaki against a colonial New Zealand backdrop, 15-year-old Hannah Carstairs has a lot of questions about her ancestry. Can she truly call herself a respectable girl? Then there are the growing hostilities between the Maori and the settlers. Perturbed that the impending war will divide her family, Hannah decides to flee to England to seek answers to who she is.
Fleur Beale deals extensively and engagingly with life in colonial New Zealand, and particularly Victorian affectations, parlance and morality.
A great secondary read, that deals directly with identity, relationships and our colonial history.
2 comments:
I think the story is a sad story but also it has mysterious things in it so i think its a fun story to read because it tells about a girls true identity.^-^
I fell in love with the girl the light in my heart!!
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