Memory Pieces

Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts.

Double Unit tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man.

Blind Road is Gee's story up to the age of eighteen, when his apprenticeship as a writer began.

Running on the Stairs tells the story of Margaretha Garden, beginning in 1940, the year of her birth, when she travelled with her mother Greta from Nazi-sympathising Sweden to New Zealand, through to her meeting Maurice Gee when they were working together in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1967.

Featured in the 28 August 2018 New Zealand newsletter.
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Featured in the 2019 Ockham NZ Book Awards newsletter.
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