From the ashes
Challinor, Deborah
1959-
creator
author.
text
bibliography
Domestic fiction.
New Zealand fiction-21st century.-21st century.
xna
Sydney, N.S.W
HarperCollins Publishers
2018
monographic
eng
440 pages ; 24 cm.
Auckland,1956. Allie Manaia works at Smith and Caughey's department store. It's been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some of her friends perished, but she still has nightmares. Allie and her husband, Sonny, are desperate for a baby, after losing a child, and Allie's distress at not conceiving again is compounded when those around her seem to have no trouble falling pregnant - even when they shouldn't. Allie's neighbours have recently moved to suburban Auckland. Ana, now a housewife, misses her work on the farm, but she has her hands full, looking after her increasingly forgetful father-in-law. Kathleen Lawson - rich, lonely and bored - is one of Allies' customers at the make-up counter. Kathleen takes a shine to Allie, but when she discovers Allie's husband is Maori, Kathleen's attitude changes. Is she trying to make friends or poison the relationship between Sonny and Allie? Sonny's beautiful younger sister, Polly, is living a vibrant but wayward life as a waitress-model-goodtime girl while leaving her young daughter to be raised by her mother. Then one day Polly disappears...
Deborah Challinor.
Includes excerpt from "House of sorrows".
Includes bibliographical references.
Man-woman relationships
Fiction
Auckland (N.Z.)
Fiction
Interpersonal relations
Fiction
Missing persons
Fiction
NZ823.4
From the ashes ; 1
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