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Summer Rain
THEY FOUGHT FOR LOVE'S MAGIC--IN A WORLD THAT WORSHIPPED WEALTH...
Victoria Fielding. The Daughter. Young, innocent, she was forced to save her family's fortunes by marrying a man she despised...only to yearn for the one she adored.
Capt. Charles Lawrence. The Second Son. Stripped of inheritance, he had to rely on his wits--and his heart--to win back Victoria's hand.
Andrew Fielding.The Soldier. He marched back from the fields of war, daring to break his society's stiff-backed rules--for the woman they forbade him to love.
Violet. The Servant. Soft-spoken and loving, she defied both "upstairs" and "downstairs" with her forbidden desires.
Amidst the lace and teacups of Victorian London, with its gilded idols of money, status, and class, they suffer the bitter lash of scandal--only to taste the sweet triumph of love.
Victoria Fielding. The Daughter. Young, innocent, she was forced to save her family's fortunes by marrying a man she despised...only to yearn for the one she adored.
Capt. Charles Lawrence. The Second Son. Stripped of inheritance, he had to rely on his wits--and his heart--to win back Victoria's hand.
Andrew Fielding.The Soldier. He marched back from the fields of war, daring to break his society's stiff-backed rules--for the woman they forbade him to love.
Violet. The Servant. Soft-spoken and loving, she defied both "upstairs" and "downstairs" with her forbidden desires.
Amidst the lace and teacups of Victorian London, with its gilded idols of money, status, and class, they suffer the bitter lash of scandal--only to taste the sweet triumph of love.
286 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1980
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Yvonne Kalman
14 books1 followerYvonne Kalman author of the blockbuster trilogy The Greenstone Land, was born in Hawera and taught for fifteen years before becoming a full-time writer in the later 1970s. Her first book was a children's animal story, Sparkles (1979), followed by Summer Rain (1980) and Midas (1983), torrid romances released only on the American mass market. She achieved international recognition when she broke into the American blockbuster market with The Greenstone Land (1981), the first of a trilogy of three historical romances set in colonial Auckland. The other two volumes in the saga were Juliette's Daughter (1982) and Riversong (1985). Bridge to Nowhere appeared in 1986, and then two further historical romances set in colonial Canterbury: Mists of Heaven (1987) and After the Rainbow (1989).
Kalman was the first New Zealand popular novelist to revive the historical romance in a major way after Edith Lyttleton (‘G. B. Lancaster’) in the 1930s, although Georgina McDonald, in Grand Hills for Sheep (1949) and Stimson's Bush (1954) had written about colonial Otago and Southland, and in the 1960s–70s Frank Bruno, James Tullett and James Sanders wrote on historical subjects in the male genre of action and adventure. Kalman's romances are colourful evocations of colonial life, laced with often lurid scenes of sex and violence, and written from the point of view of rebellious heroines struggling against the self-seeking and often brutal behaviour of the rich and powerful with whom their destinies are enmeshed. In the Greenstone Land trilogy, power is vested in the expanding Auckland business interests of a family dynasty, engaged in ruthless internecine feuds; in Mists of Heaven and its successor, in the power politics of Canterbury's ruling colonial elites. Despite their sensationalism the novels offer a richly detailed account of nineteenth-century social customs —hair and dress styles, cuisine and fashions in décor—and Juliette's Daughter in particular addresses nineteenth-century race relations with considerable sensitivity.
Kalman was the first New Zealand popular novelist to revive the historical romance in a major way after Edith Lyttleton (‘G. B. Lancaster’) in the 1930s, although Georgina McDonald, in Grand Hills for Sheep (1949) and Stimson's Bush (1954) had written about colonial Otago and Southland, and in the 1960s–70s Frank Bruno, James Tullett and James Sanders wrote on historical subjects in the male genre of action and adventure. Kalman's romances are colourful evocations of colonial life, laced with often lurid scenes of sex and violence, and written from the point of view of rebellious heroines struggling against the self-seeking and often brutal behaviour of the rich and powerful with whom their destinies are enmeshed. In the Greenstone Land trilogy, power is vested in the expanding Auckland business interests of a family dynasty, engaged in ruthless internecine feuds; in Mists of Heaven and its successor, in the power politics of Canterbury's ruling colonial elites. Despite their sensationalism the novels offer a richly detailed account of nineteenth-century social customs —hair and dress styles, cuisine and fashions in décor—and Juliette's Daughter in particular addresses nineteenth-century race relations with considerable sensitivity.
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May 3, 2012
NZ 'gone with the wind' type saga. Loved it.
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