Denniston Rose

Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick


ISBN
9781921215056
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Dimensions
136 x 234 x 26mm

The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there.

In the 1880s, Denniston is utterly isolated from the rest of the world: the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents, and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the terrifyingly steep incline – the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down to the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines: ex-goldminers down on their luck, others running from the law or from a woman or worse. They work alongside recruited English miners, solid and skilled, who scorn these disorganised misfits and want them off the Hill.

Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork, as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, finding allies and enemies in her struggle to secure a place in this tough and often aggressive community.

'The Denniston Rose' is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child, who, in appalling conditions, remains a survivor.
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