Anyone who like me is a fan of Rose Tremain will be as eager as I was to read her latest novel which is set in New Zealand during the mid-nineteenth century gold-rush. Gold is the colour linking the lives of all the characters from Joseph and his wife Harriet, the boy Edwin and his Maori nanny to the Chinese market-gardener, Pao Yi. Luminous writing draws the reader into an unfamiliar but wholly convincing world.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 20 September 2003 ) |
