"Long Valley Road"
Ross Richdale

This fast paced novel combines human emotions of love, empathy, revenge and greed with the sheer force of Mother Nature. The inhabitants of Long Valley Road have their lives changed for ever by the events happening around them. Join them and see, through their eyes, how one family grows and blossoms through the good times and bad. Julie tries to cope with a new country, Fiona discovers she is not just a mother-in-law and a young school teacher and lonely widower fall in love. But is this love strong enough to surmount the problems about to descend upon them all?

When the American Berg family emigrates to a New Zealand farm,
widower, John, his two daughters, Julie 12, Helen 6 and mother-in-law Fiona, are thrown into the turmoil of a rural society where the local one teacher school is threatened with closure and locals are divided on the issue. He supports Kylena Delton, principal at Long Valley Road School and the closure vote is defeated. John's friendship to Kylena turns to romance, something Julie has to come to terms with.

When recluse, Doctor Harold Bentley, living in a remote cabin on
the back of the farm falls ill, Fiona takes him under her wing and finds he was a university professor whose only family is a daughter Aggie, missing for twenty years. Fiona is attracted to Harold and this affection turns to love as she pierces the man's reserve. Later, Fiona uses the internet to try to trace Harold's daughter, Aggie. In doing so, Harold's earlier life and the reasons for his early retirement are revealed. How does Fiona help Harold receive justice and the recognition he deserves?

Without warning, Kylena is attacked in the school house by a
violent intruder but is rescued by John. Wounded and terrified she
confesses the man was not a stranger. Who is this man and how does this episode affect John and Kylena's lives?

A neighbor cuts down a pine plantation from the hillside opposite
the school and this, seemingly unrelated activity, has a profound affect on the district. During a winter storm, the hillside cracks open and an avalanche of mud begins to descend into the valley below. Harold discovers the tragedy about to happen and tries to warn the staff and pupils at the school. Is he in time?

As one of the senior pupils at the school how does Julie help? And
why does Helen find it so difficult to obey both her teacher and older
sister? The evacuation of the buildings is only partly successful. What goes wrong?

Long Valley Road is changed for ever when the authorities
decide not to rebuild the damaged school. Instead a consolidated school is authorized to open in the new year at Junction Road in the next valley. Kylena wins the principal's position there over incumbent, Bruce Cheever.

In the new term, a highly intoxicated Cheever arrives at the new
school to confront Kylena. After an ugly scene he leaves and drives away along Long Valley Road. He crashes into an oncoming vehicle, a vehicle driven by the man who attacked Kylena all those months earlier. Why has this man returned to the valley and how does this affect the Berg family?

Read and discover how the Berg family live in their far away New
Zealand farm.

Read an Excerpt Here

pgs. 175
Word Count - 75,300

About the Author:

After a career as a teacher and principal of mainly small rural schools, Ross Richdale writes both science fiction novels and contemporary novels. He lives in the small university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand and is married with three children. His wife, Kay, still carries the burden of teaching children at a local primary (elementary) school.

After his wife and daughter go off to work every morning, Ross shares his living room with a black and white cat who demands to be fed at least six times a day and a goldfish called Survivor who managed to survive being dropped in a glass aquarium that was totally shattered. In this congenial atmosphere, he pounds away on an ancient Macintosh to form the characters and plots for his novels.

Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also keenly interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.

When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing, usually on the computer. Other interests include wandering in the countryside and, in the summer, swimming in mountain streams or bounding through the rapids in a tractor tire inner tube. Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher.

Send Ross email:   Ross.Richdale@xtra.co.nz

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