Cheryl. “You will laugh, cry, and silently scream for justice! A timeless, charming, yet rugged, raw true story of a boy thrust by necessity into manhood.”
From the age of five, I wanted to write, penning poetry as a boy. One day I literally picked up a pen and began to write.
As I researched the life of my great-grandfather Hector and started to investigate his early Highland years of 1842, I had a growing sense of wanting to record this incredible pioneering journey through its many twists and turns. From a heart full of hope as a young apprentice, the joys of first love, and finally losing his own young family to tuberculosis.
I also studied the brave dispossessed souls who sailed for four months in leaking ships as a mass exodus of two million migrants to America, Australia and New Zealand. They, who left all behind in Ireland and Scotland, may have ended up being the fortunate ones. It is estimated that up to 100 million Americans today can trace their lineage back to those intrepid new settlers from the early 1800’s.
Hector McQuarrie
The tides of change
Lindsay. “A rugged, atmospheric historical romance about love, faith, family and perseverance.”
First book in a series following the eldest son, descended from Scottish kings
who is thrown into a class struggle with a wealthy heiress. Enraptured from
their first chance meeting, will her Victorian father ever agree to their union?
Will their forbidden love remain a secret, or force them to elope?
Ann McQuarrie and Captain Hector: A New Frontier
Gail. “A real piece of history …a family who laughed, cried and supported each other in the toughest of times.”
Determined to rise above her station as a maid, can a rugged stranger reawaken Ann’s broken heart? Can he cast off his past life, wrecked on rocky shores, to unlock the Lost treasure of love buried deep in his heart.
This true story, carefully researched, is set amidst 19th-century famines, mass migration and land clearances. Ann’s family escape the bitter winter to set out again as pioneers for distant shores in hopes of a better life. Will an unexpected encounter change the course of her life?
Hector must choose between staying entangled in the successful shipyard business with family or launch out into uncertainty and follow his dream. Can he take the helm with renewed vigour and stubborn hope and leave his beloved land, embedded in his blood. Escaping centuries of conflict will he be trapped on far antipodean shores amidst the upheaval of colonial wars? Having left one life behind, Is it improbable for him to laugh again.
The McQuarries-Author Andrew Bagust
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Description
Captain Hector McQuarrie, a seasoned shipwright, sails from Mull, Scotland in 1855 for a burgeoning new world in Australasia. Buoyed with bright hopes and infused with the Clan McQuarrie spirit, He courageously forges new endeavours, settling in Auckland, New Zealand.
In this same spirit, young Euphemia McQuarrie juggles managing the home and falling in love, all while seeking independence and challenging for women’s right to equality, breaking out of society’s constraints to win the right to vote.
However, they are tested to the core. While experiencing struggles and storms at home, at sea and economically, and after losing a mother and sister to tuberculosis, they must also accept that the same disease may yet claim another.
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Hamish.”The characters felt genuine, the setting was beautifully described with evocative and at times challenging visual imagery.”
Description
Young, charismatic Harry Bagust strives to cast off the garments of poverty, shame and kept secrets while struggling to fulfil dreams of a better life for himself and his family. With a tenacious, competitive spirit, he searches for that pot of gold in his business pursuits, sporting prowess, and a quest for a father figure, yet in his life, success seems just out of reach.
Captured by his charm in a chance encounter, the McQuarrie sisters are drawn into complex relationships of passion and grief. Though enthralled by Euphemia McQuarrie’s courage, Harry is
dutifully joined to another, but, as that marriage fails, he returns to an independent Euphemia, who now will not commit to a life of marriage.
Harry is in love with one sister, betrothed to another, then in a twist, marries the third. However, Euphemia still shares Harry’s first love.
A romantic, an optimist and a pioneer in every sense, Harry’s courage, blood, sweat, and tears are soaked into New Zealand’s very landscape and infrastructure.
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Joshua. “This warmly told story feels real from the first page.”
Theresa. “It left me wanting to read just one more page, then before I knew it, it’s the middle of the night.”
Justin. “A heartfelt read…A warm and engaging family story about love, perseverance and finding your place in a changing world.”
Gaye. “it gripped me from the first page…a story woven around Hector McQuarrie and his life in Scotland.”
Elaine. “For lovers of historical fiction, this is a well-researched story of the life of a young man living in the mid 19th century Scotland.”
Lex. “This book did not disappoint. You feel like you’re there standing beside Hector and there are always a few twists you didn’t see coming.”
Dave. “I was pleasantly surprised that generally the narration actually enhanced the created atmosphere…with character development being drawn from conversation and narrator overview.”
