The Last of the Apple BlossomThe fire took everything except two women's fighting spirits. A sweeping, big hearted Australian family saga for readers of Judy Nunn and Victoria Purman. 7 February, 1967. Walls of flame reduce much of Tasmania to ash. Young schoolteacher Catherine Turner rushes to the Huon Valley to find her family's apple orchard destroyed, her childhood home in ruins, and her brother dead. Despite her father's declaration that a woman will never run the orchard,