Mazi Mcburnie: 7 books

When Alices husband, George, passes away, her world is turned upside-down by grief. Still, she is a strong, modern woman, unafraid of facing challenges head on. She will not allow the loss of her beloved to completely destroy her life, especially since she still has a daughter to care for. However,...

In 1853 in Australia, the gold rush is at its peak. In Victoria, tent cities are erected in many parts of the land. Some people find gold but most do not, resulting in poverty and desperation. The tent cities are noisy, dirty, and rife with fights and brawls. Courageous and determined, women have...

During the 1850s Australian gold rush, Annie flees home to avoid abuse and painful memories. She walks for miles, desperate for safe haven, until she runs into Ted, a former teacher. The man is welcoming and kind and becomes a surrogate father to young Annie. Slowly, she grows into a beautiful woman...

The novel opens with a woman dressed in all black, performing a vengeful act on her husband of fifteen years, whom she has just found out to have committed bigamy with a twenty-three-year-old woman in another part of Australia and has a child with her, leaving Mary to feed and bring up her seven children...

It is 1893 in Australia when a girl is dropped off at a boarding house with nothing but a few days of rent money, a locket that states her name is Adelaide, and a plain brown dress. Without any memory of how she arrived, the girl soon learns she has been drugged, starved, and birthed a baby two days...

The book is about a family torn apart by the loss of four sons in the First World War and how they find happiness in their grief in different ways and with other people. Miranda is the main character. She is a strong, determined woman who achieves a great deal without family support initially. There...

In 1954, Marion Willis and Evan Devlin were best friends in Goldtown. Only eleven years old, they both had dreams of escaping their small town and doing big things in some far away place. They often spoke of their dreams while hiding out in their favorite abandoned mine, despite warnings from their...