The Godwits Fly

Robyn Hyde's wistful and engaging novel, first published in 1938, has now become a New Zealand classic.

A reissue of a New Zealand classic novel, with an extensive introduction by Patrick Sandbrook, one of the group of scholars working on the Hyde project. Strongly autobiographical, The Godwits Fly vividly evokes the complexities of family life and the intensely felt world of a single-minded young woman in Wellington in the 1930s.