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media type="custom" key="6812617" align="center" Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick became an instant best seller, when it was first published in New Zealand in 2003. It remained the number one best selling book in New Zealand for an unprecedented two years. Now, five years later it is still among the top 100 best sellers in New Zealand, and it’s popularity has spread far and wide to the rest of the English speaking world. “A Modern Classic” of childhood innocence lost in the wild and wooly, pioneer world of 1886 New Zealand, “Denniston Rose” has been produced on Radio to the acclaim of audiences everywhere, and is soon to be a Major Motion Picture. This novel that resonates with every New Zealander – or anyone, anywhere who has ever imagined the lives of their great grandparents as settlers and pioneers during the birth of a nation. They sometimes found themselves poor, compromised, and in need of some place to start again. There is no more unlikely place to find a new home then at the end of the earth in a remote company-run coal town. But that is where Rose and Eva land – in Denniston where they are surrounded by people who would rather not talk about their pasts.

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