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Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder. She finds an unexpected escape when her father loses a blackjack hand to a mysterious New Zealand baron ? and Gwyn's hand in marriage goes to the baron's son. The women cross paths on the ship to Christchurch ? Helen traveling steerage, Gwyn first class ? and form an unlikely friendship, one they?ll rely on when the husbands awaiting them turn out very different than they?d imagined. This nineteenth-century saga of two unforgettable young women ? navigating a new world and finding friendship, romance, and adventure at every turn ? is as lush and sweeping as the hills of New Zealand themselves.
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Al país del núvol blanc - 5ª Edición, Christiane Gohl
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Al país del núvol blanc - 5ª Edición
- Language
- Catalan
- Authors
- Christiane Gohl
- Publisher
- Ediciones B
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 734
- ISBN10
- 8466649514
- ISBN13
- 9788466649513
- Series
- New Zealand Saga
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Friendship, German Literature, England, 19th century, Historical Romance, English Literature, Victorian Era, Sagas, Hatred, Family Sagas, Farms, Homesteads, Emigration, New Zealand, Farmers, Colonization, settlement, Sheep, Māori
- First published
- 2007
- Original title
- Im Land der weißen Wolke
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder. She finds an unexpected escape when her father loses a blackjack hand to a mysterious New Zealand baron ? and Gwyn's hand in marriage goes to the baron's son. The women cross paths on the ship to Christchurch ? Helen traveling steerage, Gwyn first class ? and form an unlikely friendship, one they?ll rely on when the husbands awaiting them turn out very different than they?d imagined. This nineteenth-century saga of two unforgettable young women ? navigating a new world and finding friendship, romance, and adventure at every turn ? is as lush and sweeping as the hills of New Zealand themselves.



