Hastings Girls' High School, Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina

23,863 pages read and 2,654 team points

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1,846 pts

(1,450 pages read)

The Paris Assignment - A Novel

By Rhys Bowen

0 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, defiance and love at all costs. It takes you from England, France to Australia.
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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Hastings Girls' High School, Ngā Rau Huia o Ākina

23,863 pages read and 2,654 team points

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The Paris Assignment - A Novel

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

23,863 pages read and 2,654 team points

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