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It is 2003 in New Zealand, and Louisa Greenwood and her daughter Ngaroma are on a quest to discover their ancestry. Louisa has a greenstone necklace left to her in her father's will, and from the first time Ngaroma wears it, she has unusual experiences, both good and bad. It leads her to various locations in New Zealand and England until, through a series of meetings and coincidences, she discovers the final resting place of her five times great grandmother. One hundred and fifty years earlier, Major Joseph Greenwood, with his wife Catherine, is sent via India and England to New Zealand as a Fencible. The couple becomes established in Auckland society and all goes well until Joseph, one drunken night, fathers a son to Miriama Potiki, their live-in housekeeper. What follows is a series of challenges involving the Greenwoods, their friends and family, on both sides of the world, and the ramifications are felt by Louisa and Ngaroma five generations later. Finding Miriama is about identity, chasing dreams and self-determination: a compelling story set against the background of the the first Anglo-Afghan War and Māori-Pakeha relations in colonial New Zealand. NOTE: A PDF with additional information, including glossary, map, and family tree, is available to download with the audiobook purchase.

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Donna Goodacre, who is of Maori Tainui descent, is a retired high school/correctional centre/vocational school English and Foreign Languages teacher. Her career spanned some forty years in New Zealand and Australia. She began writing it in 2018, when family members convinced her that her ancestors' story, if told well, could make an interesting read. Five years of historical research later, coupled with a little poetic licence and imagination, Finding Miriama was completed. Donna Goodacre, who is of Maori Tainui descent, is a retired high school/correctional centre/vocational school English and Foreign Languages teacher. Her career spanned some forty years in New Zealand and Australia. She began writing it in 2018, when family members convinced her that her ancestors' story, if told well, could make an interesting read. Five years of historical research later, coupled with a little poetic licence and imagination, Finding Miriama was completed. Until recently, Naomi Barton travelled the world as an International School Drama teacher with her husband and two daughters. This enabled her to collect many different stories, accents and adventures. As well as listening to audio, she loves to groom her Ragdoll cats, play with watercolour paints and support her teenage daughters to be the most amazing young women they can be. Her interpretive skills combined with her passion for voice work is just part of what she brings to audiobook narration.

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