Leap of faith by Jenny Pattrick
A New Zealand author who writes about our country, it's people and it's history.
“A vivid novel about
ingenuity and hard slog, crooks and dreamers, bootleggers and love. Billy is a
young, impressionable dreamer. In 1907, he strikes off on his own, keen to
prove himself an able worker on the new railroad. It's being cut through steep
mountainsides and across deep gullies to join the two ends of the Main Trunk
Line. Also drawn to the remote worker settlements are miners from Denniston,
young men fresh off the boat, sly-groggers, temperance campaigners, women
following their menfolk, local Maori and a varied assortment of people after a
new life or a quick buck. Among them is a preacher, Gabriel Locke, who is
running from a shady past and determined to avoid the daily grind. With
untimely and suspicious deaths, the horrendous weather, impossible deadlines,
the rugged landscape and a blossoming romance, it will take a lot more than a
leap of faith for this disparate group to complete the railroad and build the
magnificent Makatote viaduct . . . “.
Personally I found all the
background research this book made me so interested in, more fascinating than
the book.
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