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El cautivador broche final de una gran saga familiar. Atravesando décadas y continentes, una maravillosa historia de amor, de amistad y de mujeres que rompen barreras.

Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer.Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder.

It’s 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange’s family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father’s choosing.

Nueva Zelanda, 1907. La infancia de Gloria, bisnieta de Gwyneira, termina abruptamente cuando es enviada junto a su prima Lilian a un colegia en Gran Bretaña. Una vez allí, Lilian encaja en las costumbres que impone en Viejo Mundo, pero Gloria quiere volver a toda costa a la tierra que la vio nacer, en el extremo opuesto del mundo. Y es ese profundo sentimiento el que la empuja a coger las riendas de su vida e idear un atrevido plan que marcará su destino para siempre.

The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie - who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud - Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family’s sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. When her parents send word from Europe that it’s time for Gloria to become a proper “lady” by attending boarding school half a world away in England, Gloria must leave everything and everyone she loves most in the world, including her steadfast protector Jack McKenzie.

Una inolvidable saga familiar en el exótico marco de Nueva Zelanda. Londres, 1852: dos chicas emprenden la travesía en barco hacia Nueva Zelanda. Para ellas significa el comienzo de una nueva vida como futuras esposas de unos hombres a quienes no conocen. Gwyneira, de origen noble, está prometida al hijo de un magnate de la lana, mientras que Helen, institutriz de profesión, ha respondido a la solicitud de matrimonio de un granjero. Ambas deberán seguir su destino en una tierra a la que se compara con el paraíso. Pero ¿hallarán el amor y la felicidad en Nueva Zelanda?

Irlanda, 1846. Kathleen y Michael se aman y planean en secreto abandonar su tierra natal, la humilde y hambrienta Irlanda, en busca de una vida mejor en el Nuevo Mundo. Pero todos sus sueños se ven truncados cuando Michael es condenado como rebelde y desterrado a Australia.

The dawning twentieth century brings change to New Zealand - and new opportunities for any woman bold enough to grasp them. Atamarie Turei, whose mother fought for suffrage, has enrolled as the first female student at the Canterbury College of Engineering. On a surveying trip she meets Richard Pearse, who shares her passion for aviation. Being part Maori, part white, and thoroughly independent, Atamarie is soon vilified by Richard’s conservative farm community, forcing her to navigate the next step in a liberating life.

It’s 1863, nearly twenty years since Ida Lange came to New Zealand to change her life and realize a dream. With her best friend, Cat, she established a thriving sheep farm on the continental plains where their combined families settled - and succeeded. But the idyll of Rata Station could be reaching an end. The fires of change are coming again, and this time it’s Ida’s and Cat’s daughters - Mara, Carol, and Linda - who will get swept up in the ensuing chaos.

It’s 1880 in the North Island town of Otaki, where Aroha lives contentedly with her mother, Linda - until a fateful tragedy leaves Aroha traumatized and plagued by a cursed guilt. For the long recovery ahead, Aroha is sent to Rata Station, a thriving sheep farm that Aroha’s mother and grandmother once called home. Linda knows it’s the perfect place for her daughter to heal, find hope, and start a life she can call her own.

Mecklemburgo, 1837: el sueño de una vida mejor convence a los familiares de Ida de emigrar a Nueva Zelanda. Pero cuando el barco Sankt Pauli llega por fin a la Isla Sur, a todo su pasaje le espera una sorpresa desagradable.

Sarah Lark vuelve a deslumbrar con la continuación de la cautivadora saga protagonizada por dos amigas veterinarias cuyas vidas atraviesan el siglo XX. Tras huir de Alemania, Nellie y Maria por fin encuentran en Nueva Zelanda un lugar seguro en el que establecerse con sus familias y abren una consulta veterinaria en un criadero de caballos. Pero su buena fortuna no dura mucho. Las consecuencias de la crisis económica mundial también afectan a su país de acogida y las dos amigas pronto deben emprender caminos separados.

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand.

Corre el año 1912 y, para poder trabajar como veterinaria, Nellie se casa con su amigo Phipps, quien va a heredar la consulta de su padre. Aunque no está enamorada de él, los une desde la infancia una estrecha amistad y Nellie le promete liberarlo del matrimonio en cuanto surja la oportunidad de que él haga realidad su verdadera vocación de músico. La ocasión se presenta al finalizar la Primera Guerra Mundial y Phipps desaparece de repente de la vida de Nellie.

New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more cultivated than the other men breaking their backs searching for gold near Queenstown. William is the son of landed Irish nobility, and he comes to town ready to invest in the best equipment. On his search for supplies, he encounters spirited and beautiful young Elaine O’Keefe, who promptly falls in love with him.

London, 1732: Nora Reed, the daughter of a merchant, falls hopelessly in love with her father's clerk, Simon. Despite their differing social class, the star-crossed lovers dream of a future on a tropical island - until tragedy strikes, and Nora must face a life without her soulmate. Hopeless, Nora enters a marriage of convenience with Elias Fortnam, a widower and sugar planter in Jamaica. Even without Simon, she is determined to somehow fulfill their tropical fantasy.

As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women’s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.

Nueva Zelanda, 1875. Lizzie y Michael Drury han cumplido el sueño de tener una granja de ovejas, y ante ellos parece abrirse un futuro prometedor. Pero su vida se descontrola de repente cuando su hija mayor, Matariki, es secuestrada por un líder maorí. Mientras Michael hace todo lo posible por recuperar a su hija, en la familia Burton un acontecimiento sorprendente llena de alegría a Kathleen: su hijo Colin vuelve a Nueva Zelanda. Sin embargo, nadie sospecha las consecuencias de este regreso...

In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope - until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the morning she is to be transported, Luzyna fails to join the chosen group, and Helena takes her place.

Para ser fiel a ti misma y cumplir tus sueños, a veces es necesario romper con todo aquello que has sido y emprender un largo viaje y convertir en realidad la pasión de toda una vida.