The Wives of Henry Oades. Johanna Moran

      

       The Wives of Henry Oades

      Johanna Moran

      A NOVEL

      

       For my husband, John Moran And for my parents, June Ray and John Campbell Chommie

       Tena, ki te riro ko ta te teina ki mua whanau mai ai, hei muri ko ta te tuakana whanau ai, na, he iwi kino taua iwi hou, ina tae mai ki tenei Motu.

      But, if it happens that the child of the younger is born first, and of the elder afterward, then the newcomers will be an evil people, when they arrive in this Land.

       —A Maori premonition of disorder

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Part One

The Newcomers 1890

Kindness Itself

Wellington February, 1891

Wellington March, 1892

Taken

Inconceivable

Alone

She Speaks to Me Day and Night

No Worse than Here

       A Deal

       Berkeley

       A Proposal

       Nancy

       Together Always

       The Main Concern

       Part Two

       North Island 1895

       North Island 1897

       North Island Late 1898

       Wellington

       Wellington Hospital

       March 1899

       Hello, Henry

       Part Three

       A Fly in the Amber

       A Start

       Calling the Same Man Husband

       Beginning Today

       There Was an Old Woman

       A Trip to the Quack

       At the Palace Hotel

       Pieces

       Dickering

       A Question of Divorce

       All She Knew for Certain

       A Christmas Duck

       A True Wife

       Elsewhere

       Something Demonic

       Hello, Little Bastard

       The Party Most Principally Injured

       The Wives of Henry Oades

       A Queer Life

       At Home

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       PART ONE