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Truth Needs No Colour

By Heather McQuillan
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Life is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. Her father's missing and her activist mother is dead. Marooned with her grandparents in the cyclone-wrecked South Island, life is dominated by Carapace, a corrupt corporation. When Mariana wears a red dress to her new school, she breaks an... Read More
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Life is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. Life is dominated by Carapace, a corrupt corporation. When Mariana breaks an obscure rule at school she puts her family at risk. But she must make her voice heard …

A haunting novel about the difference one voice can make.

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Life is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. Her father's missing and her activist mother is dead. Marooned with her grandparents in the cyclone-wrecked South Island, life is dominated by Carapace, a corrupt corporation.

When Mariana wears a red dress to her new school, she breaks an obscure rule and puts her family at risk. Mariana yearns to stand up for her friend Filiki, who's trapped in Carapace’s school-to-prison pipeline. Fear keeps her silent.

When Mariana finally speaks up, it’s to disastrous effect and puts everyone she loves in danger. As she confronts her fears, Mariana must make her voice heard—because this time it might change everything.

Truth Needs No Colour is a gripping tale of courage and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781738594368

Publisher: Cloud Ink Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2025

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Cloud Ink Press Ltd

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 250

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Heather McQuillan New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Published NZ Booklovers Awards 2026 Young Adult

About the Author

Heather McQuillan is an award-winning writer based in Christchurch. As well as writing for young people she writes short fiction, flash fiction and poetry and has been widely published in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. She has a Master of Creative Writing with distinction from Massey University and her thesis collection of short stories was published in the UK as Where Oceans Meet. In 2005 she won the Tom Fitzgibbon Award and three of her novels for young people have been Storylines Notable Books. Heather is the director of Write On School for Young Writers where she works to give agency to young writers.

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