The Denniston Rose
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  • Published: 1 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781776950713
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $15.99
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The Denniston Rose

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Paperback
1 Aug 2023
Paperback
18 May 2012
Paperback
5 Mar 2004
EBook
1 May 2010
Audiobook
4 Jul 2023
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A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.

This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision: ‘We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.’

Into the bleak coal-mining settlement isolated high on a plateau above the West Coast come five-year-old Rose and her mother. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree the mother must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard Jimmy Cork as bedfellow. This number one bestseller is a compelling novel about isolation and survival.
  • Published: 1 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9781776950713
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $15.99
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About the author

Jenny Pattrick

Jenny Pattrick is an acclaimed historical novelist, whose The Denniston Rose, and its sequel Heart of Coal, are among New Zealand’s biggest-selling novels. They have also been republished in an illustrated edition. The former teacher and jeweller’s works include the Whanganui novel Landings, and Inheritance, set in Samoa, which, along with all her adult titles, have been number one bestsellers in New Zealand. Other titles include Catching the Current (2005), In Touch with Grace (2006), Skylark (2012), Heartland (2014), Leap of Faith (2017) and Harbouring (2022). In 2009 she received the New Zealand Post Mansfield Fellowship. She has been active in the arts community, and has also written stories, songs and shows for children.

Identified by Nicky Pellegrino as ‘one of this country’s most talented storytellers’, it has been said that she creates ‘an authentic stage for a cast of characters who interact in ways that always ring true’ (The Christchurch Press). Reviewing Landings, Graham Beattie concluded: ‘It is not surprising that she is one of NZ’s most popular contemporary novelists and this fine piece of historical fiction will further enhance that well-deserved reputation.’

For more information go to: https://jenny-pattrick.com/books-by-jenny/

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Also by Jenny Pattrick

Heart of Coal
Landings
Skylark
Harbouring
Leap of Faith
Catching the Current
Inheritance
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Praise for The Denniston Rose

It becomes a page-turner, with a good deal of solid substance to it as well.

Nina Valentine, Ballarat Courier

She knows how a good story works: a bit of staginess; the right blend of light and shade, some tragedy and humour. As Con the Brake says, 'every good story must have the taste in the mouth', and Pattrick provides it. . . we also know we're in good hands and the story will deliver on what it promise. it provides romance, tragedy and magic in equal measure.

Liam Davison, Weekend Australian