She refused to sign a contract committing herself to a deadline or accept an advance for the book until it was finished. When Ms Stewart was first approached last year by Mr Long's publisher, Random House, to pen her perspective of life at Gorge River, she was "pretty anti". "It was the easiest money I ever made," Mr Long (a.k.a.Beansprout) said. Their home is roughly halfway between Jackson Bay and Milford Sound and is a two-day, 50km hike from the nearest road.ĭuring a brief stopover in Wanaka this week, Ms Stewart said she hoped her autobiographical account would enjoy the same success as the one written by her husband, which has sold more than 17,000 copies since its release in 2010. Mr Long's wife Catherine Stewart hit the publicity trail this week to promote her first, and she insists, only book, which details the trials and triumphs of her family's life off the grid at Gorge River on the coast of South Westland. The story of New Zealand's remotest family originally told by its patriarch Robert Long in A Life on Gorge River is back on bookshelves this month in a more feminine form as A Wife on Gorge River.
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