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Sewing Moonlight
Brief Description
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to...
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Sewing Moonlight is a tragic tale of love, loss and biodynamics in a challenging time. More than this, it is a story of one man's journey from alienation to acceptance. Like the moon, which looms large over everything, each ending is also a new beginning.
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Description
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home.
Though he is regarded with suspicion by many in the local community, he soon attracts a small number of friends, each outsiders in their own way. With a little help from the ecological theories of Steiner and the poetic inspirations of Goethe, Wilhelm survives, at times even flourishes, in a country rocked by the effects of war and the Depression.
However, it is the arrival of a new war—coupled with the sometimes-brutal climate of Central Otago—that threatens to destroy the utopia he has created.
Sewing Moonlight is a tragic tale of love, loss and biodynamics in a challenging time. More than this, it is a story of one man's journey from alienation to acceptance. Like the moon, which looms large over everything, each ending is also a new beginning.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776890651
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 April 2024
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: David Bateman Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Kyle Mewburn is an acclaimed writer of books for children with over sixty titles published in eighteen languages, including 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year, Old Hu-Hu. In 2021 Kyle released her transition memoir, Faking it. Sewing Moonlight is her first novel. Kyle lives with her wife Marion, a ceramic artist, sixteen tree-roosting chickens, a pair of troublesome-but-adorable Boer goats, two majestic Shropshire sheep, and a very spoiled cat called Monty. When she's not writing, her days are mostly consumed by maintaining, and enjoying, her rather pleasant lifestyle.
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