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Join Janet November to celebrate the publication of her first published work of fiction - Heir to a Family Business.Refreshments provided and book sales available on day - cash with discount from $32 RRP to $25.
About the book:
In 1971, Will, reluctant heir to his parents’ Banks Peninsula farm, plans to travel with his girlfriend, Polly, after he finishes college. Instead, while his father is ill, Will must take over the management of the family farm. Father and son soon clash.
Attractive Polly, a city girl, goes overseas without him. Can their engagement lead to marriage? Or is there another woman who would be a loving, supportive wife for a farmer with a passion for engines?
Readers of coming-of-age romances, family conflicts, and the effect of historical events and environmental issues on ordinary people’s lives, will love this novel.
About the author:
Janet was born, educated and married in England. Her husband’s job took them to Massachusetts where she worked in a nursery school. Her first book, The Story of a Home Playgroup, (non-fiction) was published in 1980.
In 1981, the family emigrated to Australia. She graduated LLB from Melbourne University. In 1987 they moved to Wellington. While working for the law courts and New Zealand Law Commission she wrote three legal texts and a biography of New Zealand’s first woman lawyer, In the Footsteps of Ethel Benjamin, published in 2009.
After retiring to Waiheke Island in 2011, she wrote The Herstory of OWLS, a history of the early years of Otago Women Lawyers Society.
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