Rotoroa
HEAD Amy
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
NZ$30.00
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Rotoroa Island in the Hauraki Gulf, tiny and isolated, is home to a Salvation Army facility for alcoholic men. Its also where three people at very different points in their lives share a fleeting encounter. There is Katherine, known to history as Elsie K. Morton, famous journalist and author; Jim, an alcoholic with a young family; and Lorna, a teenage mother who has turned to religion, looking for a fresh start. As the stories of their lives are revealed, so too are their hopes and vulnerabilities.
Set in the 1950s, as New Zealand society is starting to change under the pressure of new cultural energies, Rotoroa is a compassionate, beautifully unfolding examination of loss and the ...
Publication date: 2018-06-01
Number of pages: 246
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Subjects:
Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, NZ Fiction, Published in New Zealand
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