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Author(s): Jenny Pattrick

NZ Fiction

The little French girl, Lily L'Alouette, was singing and dancing almost as soon as she could walk, and performing became as much a part of her as breathing. When she is left an orphan in an unfamiliar country after her parents have emigrated to New Zealand, it is performing in a circus that offers survival. Later she takes to the stage in both Australia and New Zealand, which is where she attracts the attention of two men. One is the faithful Jack Lacey; the other is the renowned pirate Bully Hayes. While Jack has to compete with both Bully and the theatre to win Lily's attention, Lily finds she must share Jack, too.   This lively, unconventional love story is set amid real figures from nineteenth-century theatre, giving a vivid and entertaining picture of the life of actors and circus performers, of gold miners, of horse breeders, of colonial settlers. Filtered through a unique and intriguing narrative, it is page-turning, heart-warming and full of surprises.

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Jenny Pattrick is a best-selling author and is also known as a jeweller. She has been President of the Crafts Council of New Zealand, chaired the Boards of Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Drama School and the NZ School of Dance, and chaired the Writers and Readers Festival Committee in Wellington. She has had short stories and two dramatised series broadcast on National Radio, as well as writing six other novels including the bestselling The Denniston Rose.

General Fields

  • : 9781869798048
  • : Random House
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.452
  • : May 2012
  • : 230x150mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jenny Pattrick
  • : Paperback
  • : very good
  • : 300