Wairata
Author(s): Jonathan Peet
April 1890. On a cold grey autumn day, eleven-year-old David Campbell finds himself shipwrecked, traumatized, and orphaned on the wild west coast of New Zealand's North Island.
Taken under the wing of a kindly widow on her rugged, remote farm in the hills of North Taranaki, he grows and matures into a strong and gentle young man, finds friendship, belonging and love, and settles down to farm the land.
But war has raised its ugly head in the British Empire, and David finds himself dragged unwillingly into the Boer War in South Africa, where all their lives will be tragically changed forever.
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- : 01 August 2023
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Jonathan Peet was born in New Zealand and has had a varied career including chef, fur trapper, farmer and estate agent. He is now retired in the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's East Coast and enjoys fishing, scuba diving and playing guitar. Wairata is his first novel, stemming from his time in New Zealand's rugged hills, where small mining and mill-towns and settlements had flourished and died, along with their history, and this story was a culmination of that thought. He is currently working on his second novel. A story based around the first airmen of World War 1.
