The Space Between

The Space Between by Lauren Keenan


ISBN
9781776950812
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320

A gripping historical novel set amidst the New Zealand Wars in 1860.

How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either?
Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling to learn the strange etiquette of settler life.
When Frances comes face-to-face with Henry White, the man who mysteriously broke her heart a decade earlier, he's standing outside Thorpe's General Store with a sack of flour in his arms. Flabbergasted, she is determined to find out why he ended their relationship.
Henry is married now, to the proud and hardy Mataria. Humiliated by her staunch sister Atarangi because of her controversial marriage and their painful past, Mataria lives at the edges of her papakainga. With conflict swelling between her iwi and English settlers, Mataria fears for the lives of her husband and their young twins.
When fighting breaks out, Frances and Mataria find their lives intersecting in surprising, and catastrophic, ways. Each woman must confront her past as she struggles to survive the present, both questioning whether they'll ever belong, or if they're doomed to exist in the uncomfortable space between.
This transformative and gripping debut novel by Lauren Keenan (Te Atiawa ki Taranaki) is a story of the power of hope when everything else feels beyond your control, the unbreakable bonds of whenua and family, and the discovery of love in the least likely of places.
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