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(More customer reviews)I just scored this book from a used book store and read it cover to cover in one day. I was visiting a copper mine in Kennicott, Alaska and took this book with me, forgetting that it is all about mines. Once I started reading it, it was more vivid for me being at an old mining settlement. The author really brings out the individual personalities of those at the Denniston Mine. Rose' personality and spirit is infectious and you keep hoping throughout the book that she comes out on top. The insert in the book says that there is a sequel in the works...I'm hoping to find this soon, if completed, if not, hopefully it will be out soon!
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Set in the bleak 1880s coal mining settlement of Denniston-an isolated community set high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast-five-year-old Rose and her mother mysteriously arrive in this chaotic community filled with ex-gold miners down on their luck, ruffians on the run from the law, and seasoned and embittered English miners. No one knows what has driven the two to the area, but most agree the mother must be desperate-or worse-to not only choose Denniston as a residence but to eventually select local drunk Jimmy Cork as her bedfellow, leaving her indomitable daughter to fend for herself, struggling to secure a place of her own in a tough and aggressive town.
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