Image from Coce

From the ashes / Deborah Challinor.

Nā: Momo rauemi: TextTextSeries: Challinor, Deborah, Restless years ; book 1.Kaiwhakaputa: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Whakaahuatanga: 440 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781460754122
  • 1460754123
  • 9781460754139 (paperback)
Ngā marau: Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.3 23
Summary: 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...
Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Ngā puringa
Momo tuemi Tauwāhi onāianei Kohinga Tau karanga Tūnga Rā oti Waeherepae Ngā puringa tuemi
Fiction Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction Fiction CHAL (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) Wātea i2183092
Fiction Manaia LibraryPlus Fiction Fiction CHAL (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) Wātea i2231087
Fiction Stratford Fiction Fiction CHA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) Wātea A00821456
Ngā puringa katoa: 0

Includes excerpt from "House of sorrows".

Includes bibliographical references.

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...

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

©South Taranaki District Council

Contact us