Author: Sarah Lark
- Fiction
- B de Bolsillo
- ISBN: 9788413143439
- Release Date: 10-19-2021
Synopsis
Londres, 1852: dos chicas emprenden la travesía en barco hacia Nueva Zelanda. Para ellas significa el comienzo de una nueva vida como futuras esposas de unos hombres a quienes no conocen. Gwyneira, de origen noble, está prometida al hijo de un magnate de la lana, mientras que Helen, institutriz de profesión, ha respondido a la solicitud de matrimonio de un granjero.
Ambas deberán seguir su destino en una tierra a la que se compara con el paraíso. Pero ¿hallarán el amor y la felicidad en el extremo opuesto del mundo?
En el país de la nube blanca, el debut más exitoso de los últimos años en Alemania, a través de un fenómeno de boca a boca sin precedentes, es una novela cautivante sobre el amor y el odio, la confianza y la enemistad, y sobre dos familias cuyo sino está unido de forma indisoluble.
Una epopeya fascinante, recomendada por la crítica y los libreros.
London, 1852. Two girls embark on a journey to New Zealand and become friends. For both, this is the start of a new life as future wives of two men whom they only know through correspondence. The aristocratic Gwyneira is engaged to the son of a wealthy baron; the young governess Helen will marry a farmer.
Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own—but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand’s honorable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity.
Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, beautiful and daring Gwyneira Silkham, daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder, is bored with high society. But when a mysterious New Zealand baron deals her father an unlucky blackjack hand, Gwyn’s hand in marriage is suddenly on the table. Her family is outraged, but Gwyn is thrilled to escape the life laid out for her.
The two women meet on the ship to Christchurch—Helen traveling in steerage, Gwyn first class—and become unlikely friends. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life—and love— they’d hoped for.
Set against the backdrop of colonial nineteenth-century New Zealand, In the Land of the Long White Cloud is a soaring saga of friendship, romance, and unforgettable adventure.
