Long Acre is part of another KATE STIRLING HISTORICAL TRILOGY, set in New Zealand from 1946, depicting the impact of the war years on the characters in post-war New Zealand. Again reveling in the spectacular scenery of rivers, volcanoes, snow-clad mountains. Richly endowed with abundant oceans and endless skies, New Zealand is a small country with an enviable link to scientific and geological thought and activity, plus a reputation for coming through with the goods, over and over, of knowing how to live life to the full.