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The Strength of Eggshells
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She's six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith...
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See moreShe’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. With a mother who communicated only through poetry and a grandmother who lived in an isolated valley, this is a great story of discovery and revelation.
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Description
She's six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears.
Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a returned soldier in an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And what should Kate do about her own two-pointed love triangle? Somewhere out there are the answers; out where only her motorbike can take her.
The Strength of Eggshells explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780473474201
Publisher: Cloud Ink Press Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2019
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Cloud Ink Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 350
About the Author
Kirsty Powell grew up in the North Wairarapa in an isolated rural community east of Eketahuna. She now lives in rural South Auckland and splits her time between farming, writing and contracting as an Occupational Health Physiotherapist to local industries. She has also studied psychology, history, philosophy and completed a Master of Creative Writing. She has traveled by motorbike on several continents and by bicycle across Europe. The Strength of Eggshells combines many of her loves. She particularly enjoyed researching the history of the returned soldier settlement blocks in the Mangapurua Valley and meeting the descendants and one of the original settlers who is now in her nineties and appears in the novel as herself - a teenage girl in the 1940's.
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