Score: 9.0/10  [1 review]

ProdID: 3275 - My New Zealand Story - Here Come the Marines
Author: Lorraine Orman

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March 2012

My New Zealand Story - Here Come the Marines product reviews

It is 1943 and Lillian is brassed off. Until now she was like any normal city girl - at least, as normal as you can be when there's a terrible war going on and your father is away fighting. Then a spot is found on Lillian's lung - tuberculosis.

Before she knows it, Lillian is packed off to recover on her grandparents farm in Whangateau, near Warkworth. With no friends, and only her preening older sister Joyce and their grandparents for company ( and Granddad's a miserable blighter at the best of times), Lillian feels like a duck out of water. That is, until the day a US Marine Division moves in down the road. That afternoon, four Marines turn up on their doorstep wanting to buy milk. Life in Whangateau is about to get a LOT more interesting ...

My New Zealand Story is a series of vividly imagined accounts of life in the past ... making history come alive.

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Score: 3.0

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