Acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Knox recreates the sensory pleasures and gathering shadows of a New Zealand childhood in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is a collection of the novellas Pomare (1989), Paremata (1994) and Tawa (1998).
"A powerful and complicated take on childhood, not as parents would like to perceive it but as - many readers will find somewhat painfully - children, teenagers, live it."- The Listener
"Vivid and well-judged: no fuss, no excess, the images often unexpected but right and in the right places."- Times Literary Supplement
"Elizabeth Knox...allows mundane lives to reveal themselves as rich and thrilling, with inner individual mysteriousness - communicable only afterwards, and in story."- Margaret Mahy, Evening Post
ELIZABETH KNOX is the author of several books for adults, including award winning The Vintner’s Luck, and Dreamhunter & Dream Quake for younger readers. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
