BOOK LAUNCH: WEB OF GOLD by DOT SCOTT
VENUE: De Tour Gallery, Blenhein, New Zealand
DATE & TIME: 6pm Saturday 12th November
ALL WELCOME
#Gold Rush #Charleston #Historical #Romance
VENUE: De Tour Gallery, Blenhein, New Zealand
DATE & TIME: 6pm Saturday 12th November
ALL WELCOME
#Gold Rush #Charleston #Historical #Romance
In 1867 Charleston, on New Zealand’s West Coast, is a primitive place. Gold has just been found and hastily erected tents and tiny cottages are scattered throughout the roughly felled bush as hopeful miners swarm there in search of a quick fortune. Wooden shop facades line the muddy streets as Doctor Arthur Jones, his wife Felicity and their two daughters arrive from England to find only a tent to live in; an open fire their only source of heat.
Patrick Kavanagh travels the treacherous beach route from Hokitika to Charleston, lured by the promise of gold. An Orangeman, he runs up against fiery and resentful Fenians and is injured, resulting in a trip to the new doctor and a meeting with the doctor’s daughter, Amy.
There is drama in plenty as love, stolen gold, and fire, not to mention a full scale riot, rock the lives of the men and women of Charleston as they go about their daily business, in a life very different from any they’ve known before.
Patrick Kavanagh travels the treacherous beach route from Hokitika to Charleston, lured by the promise of gold. An Orangeman, he runs up against fiery and resentful Fenians and is injured, resulting in a trip to the new doctor and a meeting with the doctor’s daughter, Amy.
There is drama in plenty as love, stolen gold, and fire, not to mention a full scale riot, rock the lives of the men and women of Charleston as they go about their daily business, in a life very different from any they’ve known before.
Raised an only child on a remote farm in North Wairarapa, my early education was through the Correspondence School in Wellington and communication was always through the written word. I learned to read and write very early and even better, my mother loved words – a dictionary by my side is still a fact of life. At Iona College in Havelock North, I was lucky enough to have an English teacher (who also taught History) with the same love of words, and this, plus the vivid sort of imagination a child on her own develops, gave me a driving passion to write.
A Certificate in Historical Writing, one in Proofreading and Copy Editing and a Diploma in Creative Writing helped me to get short stories and articles published in various magazines and anthologies and I’ve now completed this, my first book. An Illustrated Historical Novel, it is set in Charleston on New Zealand’s West Coast, in the late 1860s, during the height of the gold rush. The sequel is running around in my head.
A Certificate in Historical Writing, one in Proofreading and Copy Editing and a Diploma in Creative Writing helped me to get short stories and articles published in various magazines and anthologies and I’ve now completed this, my first book. An Illustrated Historical Novel, it is set in Charleston on New Zealand’s West Coast, in the late 1860s, during the height of the gold rush. The sequel is running around in my head.
