Great characters and a good look into new zealands history.moving story and page turner!!
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Great characters and a good look into new zealands history.moving story and page turner!!
Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class
friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and
sophisticated department stores. An historical romance based on the Ballantynes
Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store
employees trapped in controversial circumstances. Set in an unnamed NZ city in
1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at
Dawsons, one of the country's most glamorous and sophisticated department
stores. The girls are Nancy, a salesgirl in the dress department, Kay who works
in lingerie, Louise, a typist in Accounts and Judy, a milliner in the workroom
out the back. The story takes place a week before Christmas, in the period
leading up to Christmas as the country prepares for a Royal Visit by the young
Queen Elizabeth. When the store is full of wealthy shoppers smoke is discovered
drifting from the basement lift shaft.
While the fire brigade is called, the store owners make a crucial error and
decide not to raise a public alarm until it's too late – exits are cut off
by the fire and the ground and first floors are ablaze, trapping staff and
customers on the upper floors. A powerful and dramatic story from one of our
best-selling novelists.
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