Notes

It’s been seven years since Mary Brogan has seen her father. He was supposed to have followed them from Australia to New Zealand, but unforeseen events have kept Will Brogan in Australia for the past seven years and Mary's mother has to cope with raising the two children on her own. The family are now living in poverty in the South Island where her mother has made it clear Mary must leave school and start contributing. But now gold has been discovered in Otago, and 13-year-old Mary overhears her aunt saying that she’s sure Will Brogan will be there, as he always followed the call of gold. So Mary hatches her daring plan - to make the long trek from her home in Dunedin to the Dunstan Diggins to find her father. But to do so, she will need to disguise herself as a boy ...