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Oh, my gosh! It's so lovely and tender. Found family in the most difficult times of life. The characters are so wonderfully flawed and human, I fell in love with all of them. The different ways creativity can take us in life, the challenges and rewards all felt right. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.
Most people don't even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Set in my home town, this book is both magical and serious, tackling the issue of the changing climate with magic realism within a deepening drama. If you haven't read a book by a New Zealander before, try this one!
'Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a herd of buffalo running from a lion, water can be the kauri falling in the forest, a two-tonne truck, a whole stadium filled with 50,000 people, screaming . . . Water is life, and water can be death.'
Three women give birth in different countries and different decades. In the…
