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Bezig met laden... The Denniston Rose (editie 2010)door Jenny Pattrick
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. It was interesting to read this book after I had been to the site of the Denniston village and done a tour into the mine itself - a tour which was really well done and showed all the various jobs the miners would have done and showed well the conditions they would have had to work under, doing everything by candlelight in very small spaces. The day was beautiful and sunny but it was easy to imagine what it would have been like on a misty wet or snowy day and easy to imagine how frightening it would have been coming up the incline. No wonder some did not want to venture down again. The book did give a feeling for the life they would have had and the problems they would have faced. It was easy to imagine after seeing the work they did why they did not want untrained workers in the mine and made more real why the women would keep a pair of clean pyjamas in a drawer in case they were needed. Some of the characters in the book were not that likeable but I guess they were the kind of people who could survive in that environment better. It was not a great story but a worth while read for me especially having seen the place itself. I shall now read the follow up to complete the story. I understand this is one of New Zealand's best-selling novels. Why is beyond me. Although I initially looked forward to the unusual historical setting, this is ultimately a depressing book with a lot of unpleasant characters and not even the cute kid gained much sympathy from me. I was also irritated by the author's mix of past and present tense. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty coal-wagon to be hauled 2000 feet up the terrifying steep Incline - the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring down the coal: ex-goldminers down on their luck, others running from the law or from a woman or worse. They work alongside recruited English miners, solid and skilled, who scorn these disorganised misfits and want them off the Hill. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one else knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork, as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself. finding allies and enemies in her struggle to secure a place in this tough and often agressive community. The Denniston Rose is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child, who, in appaling conditions, remains a survivor. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It's a great story but I think Rose remains relatively unscathed from her experiences. I can't help but wonder how she will manage to deal with her childhood trauma as she ages...the author glosses over the long term impacts of child abuse. If I didn't worry about that, I'd have rated the book higher. ( )