Dimensions
153 x 234 x 27mm
'The Colour' is a sweeping saga of sacrifice and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand.
Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, emigrate from Norfolk in search of new beginning and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. Amid squalor and confusion, amid burning heat and icy flood, Harriet Blackstone comes face to face with the true cost of desire.
In the power of its imagination, the drive of its narrative and the sophistication of its images, 'The Colour' stands alongside Rose Tremain's literary historical novels, the bestselling 'Restoration' and 'Music And Silence'.
Beautifully written, hauntingly evocative, and by turns both moving and terrifying, it is a story of the quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.
