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A Dangerous Vine
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A Dangerous Vine

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A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES, as haunting and evocative as HEAVENLY CREATURES

Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language and returning home on the 9.30 tram and maps out a course of her own. She studies Maori at University, makes friends with the wayward Emily and shy, independent Prudence. As a trio they study hard for their degrees, work by day at the local Government offices and by night sing, drink and laugh with the local Maori people - and fall in love. A new world, an enchanting world, and one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and even violence. Far removed from the closed, ordered life of Margaret Rose’s family, but perhaps not so detached from their own, secret history…

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 September 2000
Pages
448
ISBN
9781860498305

A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES, as haunting and evocative as HEAVENLY CREATURES

Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language and returning home on the 9.30 tram and maps out a course of her own. She studies Maori at University, makes friends with the wayward Emily and shy, independent Prudence. As a trio they study hard for their degrees, work by day at the local Government offices and by night sing, drink and laugh with the local Maori people - and fall in love. A new world, an enchanting world, and one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and even violence. Far removed from the closed, ordered life of Margaret Rose’s family, but perhaps not so detached from their own, secret history…

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 September 2000
Pages
448
ISBN
9781860498305