We have a customized rating system for Essie Summers based on disasters found within her novels:
worst
1-Unexpected guests
2-Laundering nappies
3-Trouble with the stove
4-Runaway horse
5-Crumbling ledge
6-Fire at the drapers
7-Flash flood
8-Digging out the sheep
9-Summer Storm
10-Landslip
best
- 1957 New Zealand Inheritance (Heatherleigh)
- 1958 Bachelors Galore
- 1958 The Time and the Place
- 1959 Master of Tawhai
- 1959 The Lark in the Meadow (Nurse Abroad)
- 1960 Moon Over the Alps
- 1961 Come Blossom Time My Love
- 1962 No Roses in June
- 1962 The House of the Shining Tide
- 1963 Where No Roads Go
- 1963 South to Forget (Nurse Mary's Engagement)
- 1964 The Smoke and the Fire
- 1964 Bride in Flight
- 1965 No Legacy for Lindsay
- 1965 No Orchids By Request
- 1965 Sweet are the Ways
- 1966 Heir to Windrush Hill
- 1966 His Serene Miss Smith
- 1966 Postscript to Yesterday
- 1967 A Place Called Paradise
- 1968 Rosalind Comes Home
- 1968 Meet on My Ground
- 1969 Revolt - and Virginia
- 1969 The Kindled Fire
- 1970 Summer in December
- 1970 The Bay of the Nightingales
- 1971 Return to Dragonshill
- 1971 The House on Gregor's Brae
- 1972 South Island Stowaway
- 1973 A Touch of Magic
- 1973 The Forbidden Valley
- 1974 Through all the years
- 1974 The Gold of Noon
- 1975 Anna of Strathallan
- 1976 Not by Appointment
- 1976 Beyond the Foothills
- 1977 Goblin Hill
- 1977 Adair of Starlight Peaks
- 1978 Spring in September
- 1978 The Lake of the Kingfisher
- 1979 My Lady of the Fuchsias
- 1979 One More River to Cross
- 1980 The Tender Leaves
- 1981 Autumn in April
- 1981 Daughter of the Misty Gorges
- 1982 A Lamp for Jonathan
- 1983 A Mountain for Luenda
- 1983 Season of Forgetfulness
- 1984 MacBride of Tordarroch
- 1985 Winter in July
- 1986 To Bring you Joy
- 1987 High Country Governess
- 1995 South Horizon Man
- 1995 So Comes Tomorrow
- 1996 Caleb's Kingdom
- 1997 Design for Life
Non-fiction
- 1974 The Essie Summers Story
Re Daughter of the Misty Gorges and others - I've sent the Sale Notice of the Burnett property in the Mount Cook area
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