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| Title Statement | The colour / Rose Tremain. |
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| Author | Tremain, Rose |
| Publication | London: Chatto & Windus, 2003. |
| Extent of Item | 368 p. |
| ISBN | 0701172967 |
| Other Number | 1256348 |
| General Notes | Map on endpapers. |
| Summary | In 1864, Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, emigrate from Norfolk, England to Christchurch, New Zealand, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. When Joseph finds gold in a creek, he guiltily hides the discovery from his family. Obsessed with finding more, he abandons his farm and family for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps. |
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| By Topic | Gold mines and mining--Fiction--New Zealand |
| By Location | New Zealand--Fiction--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century |
| New Zealand--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
