{"product_id":"the-denniston-rose-by-jenny-pattrick-9781869798420","title":"The Denniston Rose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th-century community. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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 terrifyingly steep Incline — the cable-haulage system that brings the coal down to the railway line. All sorts arrive here to work the mines and bring out 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInto this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother, riding up the Incline, at night, during a storm. No one 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, struggling to secure a place in this tough and often aggressive community. \u003cem\u003eThe Denniston Rose\u003c\/em\u003e is about isolation and survival. It is the story of a spirited child who, in appalling conditions, remains a survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46553080758508,"sku":"9781869798420","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20025333482853.jpg?v=1750062048","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-denniston-rose-by-jenny-pattrick-9781869798420","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}