One hundred days on the high seas, to a land of new hope
It's the mid-1800s and a group of Scottish puritans are looking for a New Utopia. They set sail and finally arrive at the bottom of the world: Dunedin, New Zealand. Jude Thomas brings its pioneer days to life, as the righteous and riotous collide in THE GOLD SERIES.
Southern Gold: about a girl
Thousands more immigrants will follow the earlier pioneers – some for the dreams of gold, some for the riches of New Zealand land.
Amongst them is a society-conscious family whose daughter brings them unspeakable shame, with the surprise birth of a baby girl. The young mother won't give up the newborn, and sets out on an icy morning for - who knows where? She is found on a track, nearly frozen and with post-partum fever. What to do?
Follow the story of baby Billie Frost, who grows from a colonial cast-out from the back streets into a innovative and trail blazing young woman of true grit: Southern Gold: survival and desire in a raw new land.
Image: Princes Street Dunedin1860
Amongst them is a society-conscious family whose daughter brings them unspeakable shame, with the surprise birth of a baby girl. The young mother won't give up the newborn, and sets out on an icy morning for - who knows where? She is found on a track, nearly frozen and with post-partum fever. What to do?
Follow the story of baby Billie Frost, who grows from a colonial cast-out from the back streets into a innovative and trail blazing young woman of true grit: Southern Gold: survival and desire in a raw new land.
Image: Princes Street Dunedin1860
Threads of Gold: about a woman
Billie marries her childhood love and produces a bevy of opiniated children. She expands her fashion salon while trying to balance family life. She's a suffragette and is on the spot when New Zealand grants women the right to vote.
She mixes with high society, ignores convention and argues with the Prime Minister.
Like the Billie of old, she champions the underdog and rallies against social injustice. She's an inspiration to many women of her time.
But Billie is far from perfect and faces challenges even she couldn't have invented. As her husband puts it, she's often a walking catastrophe: Threads of Gold - power and passion in a young country.
Image: Princes Street Dunedin1905
She mixes with high society, ignores convention and argues with the Prime Minister.
Like the Billie of old, she champions the underdog and rallies against social injustice. She's an inspiration to many women of her time.
But Billie is far from perfect and faces challenges even she couldn't have invented. As her husband puts it, she's often a walking catastrophe: Threads of Gold - power and passion in a young country.
Image: Princes Street Dunedin1905
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