2011. New Zealand is enduring the aftershocks of a devastating earthquake. Marty Pawson is suffering the aftershocks of a failed marriage and poor career choices. When his mother dies suddenly, Marty finds himself in possession of a handful of letters from the end of the First World War. As the letters unfold the story of Julia, who left England with a New Zealand soldier in 1919, Marty is drawn into a family secret that leads him south to the Otago high country, to an unexpected grave, and to tragic past events that will change his life in ways he never imagined.
On what he'd thought was the last day of his last field job before retirement to New Zealand, he looked at his wife in the spy screen and was dismayed. Life had not been at all quiet while he and Leo Brumm and Jim Andries had been ...
Uncle Anwar sold his surgery in Kinross, purchased a flat in Fordsburg, relocated his family to Mayfair and set out to get Zunaid accepted into Medicine at Wits University. All of this in eight months. He turned the flat in Fordsburg ...
Many years ago there were “hard currencies” that were usually gold or silver, or if they were paper, they were convertible into gold or silver. For almost a hundred years sovereign currencies have been “fiat currencies,” which says that ...
There did come a point when things got very bad though and we were forced to spend a week in Kinross in Scotland. After our brief evacuation to Kinross we moved to a flat in Elm Park, Hornchurch, not that we had a lot to move; ...