Tommo & Hawk by Bryce CourtenayMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the 2nd book in Bryce Courtenay's series the Potato Factory.
The story is continued with Tommo & Hawk, Mary Abacus' two sons. Their birth mother, died during child birth and they were found by Ikey Solomon who gave the two boys his name, and Mary raised them and loved them as her own sons.
The two boys were abducted when then were 7 and this experience has effected them both deeply. The story of Tommo and Hawk begins from when Tommo returns to Mary badly damaged both mentally and physically.
Tommo and Hawk leave the comforts of their mother, and find themselves on many adventures, they initially start out as workers on a whale ship, the embark in New Zealand and find themselves living amongst the Maori's, where Tommo meets his love Maraketa.
They leave New Zealand and return to Australia, but to Sydney where they travel to the gold mines and Tommo plays the Flats to get set for the next part of their journey. Hawk meets the love of his love Maggie Pye in Sydney.
Whilst they have been away, Mary has been writing to Hawk asking her boys to return to Hobart. Hawk gets himself in a spot of trouble and Tommo writes to Mary asking her to come to Sydney to help Hawk, whilst she is in Sydney, Mary continues to push Hawk and Tommo to return home.
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