An Important Family

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480429383

<DIV><DIV><B>The saga of an English family in New Zealand and the secret that haunts them, from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>The American Heiress</I>.</B><BR /> &#160;</DIV><DIV>For Kate O&rsquo;Connor, desperate to escape her tragic past in England, the opportunity to immigrate to New Zealand with Sir John Devenish and his wife and daughter is a chance to start over.<BR /><BR /> Exhilarated by this wild, primitive place on the other side of the world, Kate&rsquo;s happiness is marred by a love she knows is taboo. When a sudden and suspicious death throws her life into turmoil, she begins to uncover the real reason the Devenish family left England.<BR /><BR /> From a grand townhouse in London to a sheep farm in New Zealand, <I>An Important Family</I>, which was hailed by the Cleveland <I>Plain Dealer </I>as &ldquo;a compulsive page turner,&rdquo; is the story of a country in the midst of colonization&mdash;a transformation that parallels Kate O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s own rite of passage into womanhood as she finds her future in a magnificent new land.</DIV></DIV>