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Young adult fiction. The first volume in a three-volume family saga. Cornwall, 1879.When Tamar Deane is orphaned at seventeen, she seizes the chance to emigrate to New Zealand. Waiting on Plymouth quay, alone and frightened, she is befriended by Myrna McTaggert, who is travelling to Auckland to establish a brothel. Myrna's friendship proves invaluable when Tamar finds tragedy and scandal in New Zealand. Unexpected good fortune changes Tamar's life, but as the century draws to a close, a distant war lures her loved ones to South Africa.