When Dorothea ‘Tea’ Gray joins the Land Service during World
War II and is sent to work on a remote farm, she is one of many
young women left to fill the empty shoes left by fathers and
brothers serving in the Second World War.
But Tea finds more than hard work and hot sun in the dusty
North Otago nowhere—she finds a magic inside herself she
never could have imagined, a way to save her brother in a distant
land she never thought she could reach, and a love she never
knew existed.
Inspired by feminist and LGBTQ+ history, A.J Fitzwater has turned
a piece of forgotten women’s history into a tapestry of furious
pride and love that crosses cultures, countries and decades.
