Far Side of the Ocean With the First World War now a ten-year memory, Jim wants a new life for his family. And where better to find it than the Empire and in particular New Zealand, where his brother has long settled. Dilys doesn’t share her husband’s dreams. She wants to stay in England, and if not in their cramped and run down back-street pub in Portsmouth, then somewhere […]
No Place in Eden A bitter choice. Love? Or loyalty? It’s 1936, and high in the wild hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, twenty-eight-year-old Olympia Steiner’s existence is lonely and unexciting, unlike that of her friend, Ruby. Glamorous and confident, and with a successful marriage as well, every November Ruby arrives with gifts and gossip from the city. But that autumn, tragedy strikes and a terrible accident leaves Olympia’s much-older […]