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Return for the Gold ISBN: 9781877460265 Release: 03-2009 Subject: NZ Young Adult Historical Fiction Format: Paperback RRP: NZ$18.99 Download Resource Kit for teachers |
‘I’ll come for the gold, and I’ll come for you, Mary, when
you’re alone … all, all alone.’
It was nine months since the two men had robbed our small
beach settlement and taken all the gold we had mined over
six months: gold and valuables that had never been traced.
Seventeen-year-old Mary is feisty and quick tongued. She’s engaged to be married to Nik but is harried by a fearful nightmare.
In her remote South Westland community, a handful of pioneering families share what they have. Here farms are carved from the bush and houses built from scratch. Cattle are herded, and gold is dredged from the beach. Storms and floods, gains and losses, are faced together.
But a ruthless robber is biding his time: to return for the gold he’s hidden and — if he can find her alone — for Mary.
Return for the Gold is a nugget plucked from our shared past, and polished bright.
