La Rochelle's Road by Tanya Moir is a book that captures both the beauty (and harshness) of the New Zealand landscape in the mid to late 1800's and the struggle of the early settlers against both that landscape and the search to find their place in the new country.
Central to the struggle are the Peterson family who travel to the Banks Peninsula in 1886 to start a new life and the man that they purchased the land off Etienne La Rochelle. There are elements of scandal, love, disaster, ethnic, class and culture clashes and a variety of different colourful characters along the way.
A well researched and evocative first novel from Tanya that is worth picking up.
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