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Colour
Rose Tremain. Picador: 2004 (paperback). ISBN: 0312423101. 400 pages.
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If Rose Tremain's The Colour doesn't become a bestseller and a book group classic for the ages, it will be nothing short of a crying shame. This historical novel of the gold rush in nineteenth-century New Zealand has it all - a terrific cast of multi-faceted characters, a heart-racing pulse of plot, an exotically unfamiliar setting, and, of course, "the colour." Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone flee England for a new start at farming in New Zealand, leaving behind a terrible crime that Joseph hasn't yet gotten around to revealing to his wife. But when Joseph makes a surprising discovery in his new land, he finds a reason to hoard a new secret, and to abandon his family and farm in favor of future reward beyond his earlier wildest dreams. Harriet is left behind, but soon finds herself compelled by overwhelming desires of her own to hit the road. You'll be as amazed as the characters themselves about what (and whom) they find in this tantalizing, tortuous wilderness-in short, you're going to freak out at how good this novel is.
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