Case 5
- Novels, Central Otago 2
Essie Summers. A Place Called Paradise. London: Mills & Boon, 1967.
Essie Summers and her Dunedin-based family enjoyed holidays near Lake Wakatipu and knew that beyond Glenorchy and the lake’s northern reaches there was A Place Called Paradise. Paradise is where the heroine of Summers' novel, Annabel, seeks her family roots. She reappears in A Touch of Magic, which is set nearby. This second novel in the location features main characters who also make a memorable visit to the iconic Skyline Restaurant on the slopes above Queenstown.
Essie Summers. A Touch of Magic. London: Mills & Boon, 1973.
Essie Summers. Anna of Strathallan. London: Mills & Boon, 1975.
Complex family and personal misunderstandings arise on the farm at the heart of Anna of Strathallan. Its location is in the area west of the Roxburgh power station on the Clutha River. In contrast, Summers devised The Lake of the Kingfisher in her mind, but she suggested readers could picture it down in the valley below Coronet Peak's ski fields.
Essie Summers. The Lake of the Kingfisher. London: Mills & Boon, 1978.
