"The river was my Rubicon', Mona said. 'I had heard stories about the terrible Wilberforce: so many people had been drowned in it. I tried not to think about the time when I could have to cross it. But the road had come to an end at a corrugated iron shed. Somewhere beyond it I knew we would find the station, Mount Algidus, a green, high-country oasis amid the snow and the tussock."
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Mona Anderson
Amy Mona Anderson MBE (nḗe Holland; 11 March 1909 – 3 May 2004) was a New Zealand writer. She is best known for her first book, A River Rules My Life, published in 1963.In Pacific Affairs in 1963–64, American J. B. Condliffe described it as "an immediate best-seller in New Zealand", while in 2017 a Christchurch City librarian wrote that its reissue was "a cornerstone of New Zealand back country life".
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