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The Space Between

Lauren Keenan

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Description:A gripping historical novel set amidst the New Zealand Wars in 1860.How do you choose between two sides, when you don’t belong on either?Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family’s impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling to learn the strange etiquette of settler life.When Frances comes face-to-face with Henry White, the man who mysteriously broke her heart a decade earlier, he’s standing outside Thorpe’s General Store with a sack of flour in his arms. Flabbergasted, she is determined to find out why he ended their relationship.Henry is married now, to the proud and hardy Matāria. Humiliated by her staunch sister Atarangi because of her controversial marriage and their painful past, Matāria lives at the edges of her papakainga. With conflict swelling between her iwi and English settlers, Matāria fears for the lives of her husband and their young twins.When fighting breaks out, Frances and Matāria find their lives intersecting in surprising, and catastrophic, ways. Each woman must confront her past as she struggles to survive the present, both questioning whether they’ll ever belong, or if they’re doomed to exist in the uncomfortable space between.This transformative and gripping debut novel by Lauren Keenan (Te Ātiawa ki Taranaki) is a story of the power of hope when everything else feels beyond your control, the unbreakable bonds of whenua and family, and the discovery of love in the least likely of places.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Space Between. To get started finding The Space Between, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin Books NZ

Release: 2024

ISBN: 177695081X

Description: A gripping historical novel set amidst the New Zealand Wars in 1860.How do you choose between two sides, when you don’t belong on either?Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family’s impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling to learn the strange etiquette of settler life.When Frances comes face-to-face with Henry White, the man who mysteriously broke her heart a decade earlier, he’s standing outside Thorpe’s General Store with a sack of flour in his arms. Flabbergasted, she is determined to find out why he ended their relationship.Henry is married now, to the proud and hardy Matāria. Humiliated by her staunch sister Atarangi because of her controversial marriage and their painful past, Matāria lives at the edges of her papakainga. With conflict swelling between her iwi and English settlers, Matāria fears for the lives of her husband and their young twins.When fighting breaks out, Frances and Matāria find their lives intersecting in surprising, and catastrophic, ways. Each woman must confront her past as she struggles to survive the present, both questioning whether they’ll ever belong, or if they’re doomed to exist in the uncomfortable space between.This transformative and gripping debut novel by Lauren Keenan (Te Ātiawa ki Taranaki) is a story of the power of hope when everything else feels beyond your control, the unbreakable bonds of whenua and family, and the discovery of love in the least likely of places.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Space Between. To get started finding The Space Between, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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