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Dear Oliver KidsBooksNZA fresh way to look at New Zealands history Longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mothers effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier