Is blood always thicker than water? Shelley Fitzgibbon has it all ? three beautiful children, a charismatic, successful husband and a life of her dreams. Then her husband Charlie disappears, leaving behind more than just a business empire in crisis . . . The luxurious family home is sold, and while Shelley's daughters Olivia and Emma come to terms with being broke, eleven-year-old Mac refuses to talk about what happened. When Charlie's estranged mother Vera opens her door to the broken family, secrets from the past begin to emerge that reveal that there's more to the Fitzgibbons than meets the eye. As Shelley struggles to keep her family together, she begins to wonder if she ever knew the man she married . . . And six thousand miles away Charlie is wrestling with life-changing decisions of his own. Is blood always thicker than water? Maybe Charlie's family are simply better off without him.
A fabulous multi-levelled novel, shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards. Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art history conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a packet of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a singer whose song she does not understand . . . Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love . . . and limestone.
An evocative novel about secrets, disillusion and a unique place. Luke Freeman returns from the Second World War keen to start a new life with his wife, Constance, and eleven-year-old daughter, Emily. However, after arriving in Northland, it is clear the patch of land he has bought from Brigadier Barnsley is useless. During the drought-stricken summer that follows, the Freeman's lives become interwoven with the demanding Barnsleys. Like the elusive springs of water, secrets are bubbling just under the surface - will they be discovered?
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