Book review: Displaced by Cristina Sanders
4 May, 2021 05:00 PM
3 minutes to read
Reviewed by Adele Broadbent, Wardini Books
Eloise loves her life on their farm in Cornwall England, surrounded by her three brothers, younger sister and their parents.
When they are all summoned together by their father, they wonder what the reason. Their father, stern and solemn, announces that they are to leave Cornwall. The owner of the farm (their uncle) has sold it to start afresh in New Zealand. They are to join him.
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In shock they pack their lives into boxes and in September 1871, sail away from England on a ship called the Balmoral, to the bottom of the world. Their family is splintered and broken when they finally arrive in Napier, New Zealand, months later in August 1872.