Deborah Challinor’s Smuggler’s Wife quartet – Kitty, Amber, Band of Gold and The Cloud Leopard’s Daughter – follows the adventures of Kitty Carlisle an impoverished young woman who is banished to the colonies in disgrace to live with her dour missionary uncle and his wife.
Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, of Irish extract, a ship’s captain and gun runner.
Their fortunes twist and turn as they travel the southern seas from the Bay of Islands to Ballarat, then central Otago and on to the opium dens of Hong Kong.
Deborah Challinor’s Smuggler’s Wife quartet – Kitty, Amber, Band of Gold and The Cloud Leopard’s Daughter – follows the adventures of Kitty Carlisle an impoverished young woman who is banished to the colonies in disgrace to live with her dour missionary uncle and his wife.
Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, of Irish extract, a ship’s captain and gun runner.
Their fortunes twist and turn as they travel the southern seas from the Bay of Islands to Ballarat, then central Otago and on to the opium dens of Hong Kong.
Deborah’s novels seamlessly fuse historical fact with fabulous fiction. The characters are vividly drawn, the period is meticulously researched resulting in a powerful page-turning narrative from New Zealand’s best historical novelist.
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