Past Perfect

Past Perfect
Karen Zelas
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Trade Paperback
h235 x 155mm - 286pg
1 May 2010 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 4-12 days
9780958292368
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Past Perfect is part present-day novel, part historical. It is a story of love and loss, prejudice and resolution, as well as the search for selfhood. A fictional story, it is set against the well-researched background of the French settlement of Akaroa and its established inhabitants, the Maori. Sue Spencer embarks on a search for meaning in her life, for a better sense of who she might be. This is prompted by a brush with mortality, her children approaching adulthood and the relationship with her husband being tested. Her quest takes her from her home town of Christchurch to Akaroa, to France and back, tracking her genealogy. Her discoveries are unexpected and place further pressure on strained family relationships. Parallel to Sue's journey and interwoven with it, is that of her ancestor, Frenchwoman Brigitte (Bibi) Dujardin. Bibi arrived on the Comte de Paris from Rochefort, France, in 1840 to settle in Akaroa. Bibi's story is told in letters written to her mother in France. This is a satisfying novel, which explores the diversity and complexity of our New Zealand heritage.
Karen Zelas is a former psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She is Fiction Editor of Takahe literary magazine and editor of the anthology Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury - prose and poetry (Wily Publications, 2009). Her short stories and poetry have been published in a variety of literary magazines, anthologies and broadcast on radio.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780958292368
Published: 1 May 2010
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Wily Publications
Publisher: Wily Publications
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Pages: 286

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