Suzanne Aubert grew up in a French provincial family in the mid-nineteenth century. Lyon's Catholic missionary spirit brought her to live with Maori girls in war-anxious 1860's Auckland.

She nursed Maori and Pakeha in Hawke's Bay as the settler population swelled in the 1870's. In the 1880's and 1890's, living up the Whanganui River at Jerusalem, she set up New Zealand's home-grown Catholic congregation, published a significant Maori text, broke in a hill farm, manufactured medicines, and gathered babies and children through the years of economic depression.

The turn of the century sent her windswept skirts through the streets of the capital. There she would be a constant sign of caring for people 'of all creeds, and none' until she died in 1926.

Paperback - 464 pages

Published 1998

Excellent condition