Tamar (61 page)

WHITE FEATHERS

In 1914, Tamar Murdoch’s brothelkeeping days are behind her. Her life is one of ease and contentment at Kenmore, a prosperous estate in the Hawke’s Bay, as storm clouds over Europe begin casting long shadows.

In this gripping second instalment of Deborah Challinor’s sweeping family saga, Tamar’s love for her children is sorely tested as one by one they are called, or driven, into the living hell of World War One.

During the Boer War, Joseph, her illegitimate eldest son, fought as a European, but this time he is determined to enlist in the Maori Battalion, despite his growing attraction for his childhood friend, Erin. As loyalties within the Murdoch clan are divided, and the war takes Tamar and Andrew’s only daughter far from her sheltered upbringing, the people and experiences their children encounter will shape the destiny of the Murdoch clan for generations to come.

BLUE SMOKE

On 3 February 1931, Napier is devastated by a powerful earthquake — and Tamar Murdoch, beloved matriarch of Kenmore, is seriously injured. As she recovers, Tamar is preoccupied with the ongoing effects of the Great Depression. When her grandson threatens to leave for Spain to join the International Brigade, she feels a familiar dread — once again her family is threatened by war and heartbreak, as Hitler’s armies march.

In this final volume of the Children of War trilogy, the story of the feisty Cornish seamstress who became a brothelkeeper and landowner is brought to a stirring and memorable conclusion.

Copyright

This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events; to real people, living or dead; or to real locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Other names, places, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.

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First published in 2002
This edition published in 2012
by HarperCollins
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Copyright © Deborah Challinor 2012

Deborah Challinor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Challinor, Deborah.
Tamar / Deborah Challinor.
Originally published: 2002.

ISBN 978-1-86950-775-6

I.Title.
NZ823.3—dc 22

ISBN: 978 1 86950 775 6 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978 1 74309 728 1 (epub)

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