Walking in the Shadow - Carmen Radtke

Category: Historical Fiction, Novel, Romance
Language: English
Keywords: Australian new zealand

Written by Carmen Radtke
Read by Toby Webster
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Walking in the Shadow
By: Carmen Radtke
Narrated by: Toby Webster
Release date
01-01-2021
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
8 hrs and 2 mins
Publisher
Isis Publishing Ltd
Categories
Literature & Fiction

1909, Quail Island. On a small, wind-blasted island off the east coast of New Zealand a small colony of leprosy patients is isolated but not abandoned, left to live out their days in relative peace thanks to the charity of the townspeople and the compassion of the local doctor and matron of the hospital.

Jimmy Kokupe is a miracle: he’s been cured. But he still carries the stigma, which makes life back on the mainland dangerous and lonely. To find a refuge, he’s returned to the camp to care for his friend, fellow patient old Will, and disturbed young Charley. Healed of his physical ailments and dreaming of the girl he once planned to follow to a new life in Australia, Jimmy meets ‘the lady’, the island caretaker’s beautiful but troubled wife who brings their food. Can she help Jimmy forget his difficult past and overcome his own prejudices towards his mixed parentage, and find the courage to risk living in freedom?

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