Hastings Girls' High School, Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina

63,804 pages read and 5,661 team points

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The Paris Assignment - A Novel

By Rhys Bowen

5 stars

Madeliene Grant is from London,was sent away to boarding school when her father remarried. Years later she travels to France to study there and reconnect with her birth mothers heritage and the french language. She meets her husband there and they have a son. Then their idyllic life is changed when the germans invade France. This novel is about courage, heartache, defiance and love at all costs. It takes you from England, France to Australia.
The Perfect Mther

By Claire Allan

4 stars

A pyshological thriller, Mel was a doula for a couple having their first child. The wife did not want any intervention just Mel supporting her through the birth at home. Things went terribly wrong, and it was not Mels fault. But during the last year and Mels own 2nd pregnancy has been a living nightmare.
The Victory Garden

By Rhys Bowen

5 stars

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. ...
An Italian Dream

By Kate Frost

4 stars

Best friends Stella and Fern and their two daughters are on a holiday of a lifetime in Capri, Italy. Stella has won millions of pounds in a lottery. The friends soak up the beauty of Capri and what it has to offer. The daughters loving the night life and the Italian men. In two week the rest of the family will be joining them to celebrate Stella and Fern's fortieth birthdays. But Stella has a secret that is going to be unveiled, .........
The Bookseller at the End of the World

By Ruth Shaw

5 stars

This memoir of Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of people who come to visit her bookshops, in a remote village in Manapoouri in Fiordland. They talk about favourite books and Ruth shares her life accounts of her travels through the South Pacific with her husband in their yacht. "This book will make you weep and make you laugh and make you want to read more books." Maybe you might put her book shops on you bucket list to visit when travelling in the deep south of New Zealand.
Where Light Meets Water

By Susan Paterson

5 stars

1847 London, on shore leave while his ship is being repaired, Thomas Rutherford is restless wanting to return to the sea. His other passion is painting. He meets another artist, Catherine Ogilvie. His world changes..... This is a multi stranded novel of love of a man and a woman, of a sailor and the sea, and an artist and his gift. A beautifully written debut novel.
Runaway

By Tania Kelly Roxborogh

5 stars

A boy has runaway from his foster home to find his father who left him 10 years ago. We follow his journey with a girl he meets along the way.

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63,804 pages read and 5,661 team points

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The Paris Assignment - A Novel

The Perfect Mther

The Victory Garden

An Italian Dream

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Where Light Meets Water

Runaway

Hastings Girls' High School, Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina

63,804 pages read and 5,661 team points

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