TY  - BOOK
AU  - Challinor,Deborah
TI  - From the ashes
T2  - Restless years
SN  - 9781460754122
U1  - NZ823.3 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Racially mixed families
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Auckland (N.Z.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes excerpt from "House of sorrows"; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Auckland,1956. Allie Manaia works at Smith and Caughey's department store. It's been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some of her friends perished, but she still has nightmares. Allie and her husband, Sonny, are desperate for a baby, after losing a child, and Allie's distress at not conceiving again is compounded when those around her seem to have no trouble falling pregnant - even when they shouldn't. Allie's neighbours have recently moved to suburban Auckland. Ana, now a housewife, misses her work on the farm, but she has her hands full, looking after her increasingly forgetful father-in-law. Kathleen Lawson - rich, lonely and bored - is one of Allies' customers at the make-up counter. Kathleen takes a shine to Allie, but when she discovers Allie's husband is Maori, Kathleen's attitude changes. Is she trying to make friends or poison the relationship between Sonny and Allie? Sonny's beautiful younger sister, Polly, is living a vibrant but wayward life as a waitress-model-goodtime girl while leaving her young daughter to be raised by her mother. Then one day Polly disappears
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