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A Respectable Girl

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It is 1859 in the raw new township of New Plymouth where Hannah Carstairs walks between two worlds. To her English father she is Hannah; to her Maori step-mother she is Hana who speaks Maori but only when Papa or her beloved Aunt Frances aren’t around. Soon, Hannah finds that both her worlds are changing. First there are the disturbing hints about her dead mother’s past. Then the tensions between the Maori tribes and the settlers boil over into war. Hannah and her twin brother Jamie flee from the fighting. They board a sailing ship and make the long trip to England where they must confront the past.

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Dimensions 13 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

368
Publisher

Year Published

2006-3-6
Imprint

For Ages

12
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1416910999
About The Author

Fleur Beale was born in New Zealand in 1945. After a long career as a teacher as well as an author she has now given up teaching to concentrate on her other interests. She writes, visits schools, teaches creative writing and assesses manuscripts. She lives in Wellington but frequently travels to London where her two daughters live. Fleur has had around 25 books published in New Zealand, and been short-listed six times for New Zealand national children's book awards.
Other text

A beautifully told story of coming of age, set against a backdrop of colonial New Zealand and frustratingly traditional provincial England.

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