The Colour of Our Country

The Final Years

De: John Sargeant

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

From small town New Zealand to Singapore, Frieda Carson had been secretly watched and studied by those who sought to exploit her. When her life was in imminent danger, she was ‘bought’ then taken to where her skills were extensively developed in the art of deceit, seduction and weaponry before being sent from the Greek islands to the very seat of Russian political power, the Kremlin. Sent in by her controller, Christos Konstantinos to infiltrate the Russian political system, she set out to retrieve information desperately needed for his munitions deals to succeed, but while Frieda played the game to ensure her own survival, regardless of the cost to herself, she had only one thought on her mind, to find the one person responsible for the orchestrated killing of her sister.
Back in New Zealand, Frieda’s family went on with their lives in blind ignorance of what she was doing in the family name…until the inevitable family ties brought their paths crashing together. Still not over the death of her husband, Finn, Deb fought her own demons, struggling for her own identity and grieving for a ‘lost’ family. When Frieda’s problems exploded into her life, becoming her own, she found a hidden strength. But for her own self, it was only her place of salvation which offered her an echo of solace in a way she never expected, a glimmer of inner peace there for the taking, but only if she had the confidence to accept it.
Neil and Tamsin had their own lives well outside of Frieda’s influence as they raised their three girls, Madison, Poppy and Lily in the idyllic village of Matahua on the Waimea Inlet, just a stone’s throw from Nelson. Tamsin, a successful businesswoman and artist and Neil, studying for a PhD while building the family home, took enjoyment from the simple things, until Tamsin’s aging father, Sawyer, started to decline, ending in a spiral of bittersweet memories and an insurmountable loss.
‘The Final Years’ is the tenth and final novel in the series ‘The Colour of Our Country’.
A well-constructed and meticulously researched mix of historical and contemporary fiction, the series spans five generations of one family over a hundred and fifty years. Set against the backdrop of New Zealand, you will be there when the children are born and learn to love them as your own. You will travel the globe on the wings of love and war where you will laugh and you will cry, but what you will never do, is forget.