New Ships

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duignan, Kate

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wellington : Victoria University Press 2019

Summary:

I think it's fair to say I was rewarded, praised, applauded, more than most fathers.Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. His attempts to understand the turn his life has taken lead him back to the past, to dismaying events on an Amsterdam houseboat in the seventies, returning to New Zealand and meeting Moira, an amateur painter who carried secrets of her own, and to a trip to Europe years later with his family. An unexpected revelation forces Peter to navigate anew his roles as a husband, father and son.Set in Wellington after the fall of the Twin Towers, and traversing London, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, The New Ships is a mesmerising book of blood-ties that stretch across borders. A novel of acute moral choices, it is a rich and compelling meditation on what it means to act, or to fail to act.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781776561506

1776561503

OCLC:

1521498364