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2000s: What would you do if you suspected one of your pupils was being abused?
Breaking the Circle
What you need to know before your trail
Emily Danvers, a young New Zealand teacher, goes to an Auckland school to work as a relief teacher for a few weeks. But when there she suspects that one of her pupils is being abused at home. She tackles the boy’s stepfather Sel,but ends up setting off a chain of events that she never could have expected.
They become stranded on an desert island and meet with the reclusive Annie. But what will Annie herself learn from her two surprise visitors? …
Emily suddenly discovers that her new friend Don, a farmer, though clumsy and socially awkward, has hidden depths, and he will have an input no one could have foreseen.
Travel Guide
Auckland
The city and its streets not the main character in the story but rather a character study of what can happen when a circle of abuse is allowed to continue, and also what happens when and if it breaks.
The outlying areas – the farming landscape also comes to the fore here as Emily’s friend Don is a farmer on a remote dairy farm, surrounded by his brothers and widowed mother . And all the land you can shake a stick at, plus a very shaggy sheepdog
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Breaking the Circle
Author/ Guide: Althea Barr Destination: Auckland Departure Time: 2000s
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