Title: Isle of tears
Description: A powerful story of love and loss set during the tumultuous six years of the Land Wars: it is the story of a young Pekeha girl, Megan Jamieson, who along with her older brothers and younger brother and sister is abducted by Maori after the murder of their parents. Raised by Maori, and rescued by British forces, and the object of curiosity.
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people), Fiction, Women, History
Places: New Zealand, Auckland (N.Z.), Auckland
Time periods: New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872, 19th century