![]() ![]() This is a darkly comic but moving historical fiction debut about love and family, based on a controversial court case from the early 1900s. So months later they arrived on his doorstep in America and Henry Oades discovered that he had two wives and many dilemmas … When they contracted smallpox they were cast out and, ill and footsore, made their way back to town, five years after they were presumed dead.ĭiscovering that Henry was now half a world away, they were determined to rejoin him. In the meantime, Margaret Oades and her children were leading a miserable existence, enslaved to the local tribe. ![]() The Wives of Henry Oades is her first book. In despair he shipped out to San Francisco to start over, eventually falling in love with and marrying a young widow. She first came across this story through her father, a professor of law. Henry searched ceaselessly for his family, but two grief-stricken years later was forced to conclude that they must be dead. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast – although it wasn't long before disaster struck in the most unexpected of ways.Ī local Maori tribe, incensed at their treatment at the hands of the settlers, kidnapped Mrs Oades and her four children, and vanished into the rugged hills surrounding the town. In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives – and many dilemmas… ![]()
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