Claire: Life In 1961 Wasn't Easy

In 1961 New Zealand, Claire, a single, pregnant girl, is sent to the countryside to give birth and give her child up for adoption. She stays with the Sloane family, but an accident leaves her alone on their farm. As she navigates unexpected challenges, including the arrival of Hazel's father, Bob Hodge, Claire uncovers hidden truths about her past and the Sloane family. In a conservative rural community, secrets from generations past surface, intertwining Claire's fate with the family. This story explores the journey of healing and the transformative power of love.

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About the Author: Ross Richdale
After a teaching career, Ross Richdale now writes full time. He has completed forty novels both contemporary and science fiction novels, most of which are on line as ebooks . He lives in the Palmerston North, New Zealand is married with four grandchildren.

Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher. Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.
The liberated 60s have not reached the shores of New Zealand when Claire, a single pregnant girl is sent up-country to have her child, which is to be adopted out. The Sloane family are strangers who offer to board her through this time. But are they?

Claire is thrust into the unknown when, immediately after her arrival, Alan and Hazel Sloane are involved in a truck accident on the farm. It is up to Claire to help. She does but is now alone on the farm. Initial fears at being alone reach a climax when an elderly man arrives to look after the animals.

He is Bob Hodge, Hazel's father. Claire and Bob feed out in the snow and gradually an affinity develops between the pair. Claire's life is at a tangent and a thread of facts begins to unwind about herself and the family she is living with. Tragedies of the past surface and actions of the present complicate issues.

In this conservative rural area, the tranquillity of the surface hides a darker background that goes back a generation to before Claire was born. And she is directly involved.

This is a story of how scars of the past are opened and conquered by the love of the present for and by Claire, a girl who becomes a woman in the months that make up 1961.

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