The Current Rate of Exchange

✍ Scribed by Lynch, Jacqueline T.

• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Oklahoma City
• ISBN: 150222089X

✦ Synopsis

Rose, a tall, bumbling American woman travels to New Zealand to re-establish ties with her late mother's family and begins the adventure of her life. If she can survive it. Armed with old family letters, she retraces her mother's footsteps as a young woman during World War II as a government agricultural worker & mdash;or Land Girl & mdash;and a war bride when Rose's father landed in New Zealand with the U.S. Marines. The Current Rate of Exchange is a humorous, heartwarming, and poignant tale of what it means to reconnect, to discover, and to forgive. Rose unexpectedly becomes involved in the family problems of her cousin Nora; her sudden romance with the handsome, troubled manager of the family farm wasn't on the agenda, either. If you like the romance of travel, the adventure of unexpected delights & mdash;and the delight of unexpected romance & mdash;pack up your dreams and follow Rose on her quest for closure. But will she be able to retrace her own steps home without repeating mistakes of the past?

✦ Subjects

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction