Gifted

Author: Evans, Patrick
Publication date: 04/09/2010
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780864736376

One day in 1955 the ‘father of New Zealand fiction’ finds a young woman on his doorstep. A writer herself, she has recently emerged from a lengthy spell in hospital and is looking for somewhere safe to live and write. Somewhat to his own surprise, not to mention discomfort, he takes her in. What happens behind that high Takapuna hedge in the ensuing year is the story told in this delightful and moving novel.