Wairata
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New Zealand. 1890. On a cold grey autumn day, eleven year old David Campbell finds himself shipwrecked and orphaned on the wild west coast of the North Island. Taken under the wing of a kindly widow on her remote sheep farm, he thrives and grows into a strong and gentle young man, finds friendship and love, and settles down to farm the land in the tiny settlement of Wairata. But war has raised its ugly head in the British Empire, and David is dragged unwillingly into the Boer War in South Africa, where all of their lives will be forever changed.
Author: Jonathan Peet
ISBN: 9780473677824
Publisher: Jonathan Peet
Published: 20231001
Format: Paperback / softback
About the Author
Jonathan Peet was born in New Zealand and has had a varied career including chef, fur trapper, farmer and estate agent. He is now retired in the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's East Coast and enjoys fishing, scuba diving and playing guitar. Wairata is his first novel, stemming from his time in New Zealand's rugged hills, where small mining and mill-towns and settlements had flourished and died, along with their history, and this story was a culmination of that thought. He is currently working on his second novel. A story based around the first airmen of World War 1.