Ryan: In the headlights, I saw her face. Brown hair swinging as she turned to stare at us. Brown eyes stretched wide and startled. Then she hit the windscreen. Tara: I heard a roaring, shuddering noise. I was in mid-air, arms and legs stretched out. Then everything the car, the guys, me went rushing and shrinking together in a tiny glare of light, and I sank into the dark. Ryan has just got his licence. He's in the car with his mates. Tara likes to go running. She's on her way back home. Neither of them is paying much attention...The harrowing accident that follows impacts many lives. This is a moving and compelling story of recovery, told by one of New Zealand's foremost children's writers.

Author Biography

David Hill was born in the 1940s and spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Napier. He studied at Victoria University and became a high school teacher, teaching both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He became a full-time writer in 1982 and is the author of several books for adults. His short stories and plays for teenagers and young readers have been published and broadcast in New Zealand, Australia and the USA. David Hill says writing gives him great pleasure. 'It's the feeling that you've made something. Lots of other people will make much better things than you, but no one will ever make the same. What you've done is unique and that's a marvelous feeling,' he says. David Hill writes from his home in New Plymouth where he lives with his wife Beth. He enjoys tramping, reading and cheering for the All Blacks. His books include: See Ya, Simon published 1992 Take it Easy published 1995 Cold Comfort published 1996 Treasure Deep published 1997 Comes Naturally published 1998 Time Out published 1999 Afterwards published 2000 The Name of the Game published 2001 Right Where it Hurts published 2002 No Safe Harbour published 2003