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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Open World (2012)di Stephanie Johnson
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"London 1866. Elizabeth Smith is struggling to survive when she hears that her former New Zealand employers, Judge and Lady Martin, are returning to England. Accompanied by her dear friend, the lunatic Reverend Cotton, she makes a pilgrimage to settle old scores. Mid-century New Zealand, London and the spa town of Buxton are vividly evoked in a novel about motherhood, earliest colonial days, pharmacology and poreirewa - the yearning for absent loved ones"--Publisher information. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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She takes us on a voyage, to times past and conjures up the landscape and society of New Zealand 1840's - 1860's, those early colonial days and evokes London during the same period. Elizabeth Smith, elderly, alone and in poor health, reflects on her life and times in New Zealand, where she worked as a nurse in the Native Hospital in the now Judges Bay, Auckland.
I swum there on occasion during my childhood, so I was intrigued by the history of the area. Stephanie Johnson's descriptions of the bay brought to mind the early paintings of the Auckland waterfront in the Auckland Art Gallery.
The story flits between the 1860's London where Elizabeth Smith is alone and dependent on opiates, having left her sons and grandchildren in New Zealand and the 1840's where she embarks on a voyage, as travelling companion to Lady Martin, young wife of Judge Martin, who had preceded her to Auckland.
The changing time frames are accomplished smoothly and the authors adoption of a more formal writing style transports the reader to those early pioneering years. (