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Ripples on the lake / Dawn Rotarangi.
- Title
- Ripples on the lake / Dawn Rotarangi.
- Author
- Rotarangi, Dawn, 1950-
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9708 .R842R56 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 336 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "When an out-of-it Billy Delaney steals coins from a sacred rock on the shores of Lake Taupo to buy a burger, he has no idea what he is about to unleash. But then Billy has always been trouble, and when his sister Saffron steps in to try and take care of him yet again, trouble swarms over the Delaneys like bees over a honey pot. First Saffron's niece suffers an horrific accident, leaving her balanced precariously between life and death. Then the Delaneys begin to die. It is left to a disbelieving Saffron and an unlikely ally, Nick - a burnt-out war photographer trying to piece his shattered life back together in a country backwater - to try to appease the wrath of Tama Ariki, whose quest for utu echoes down the centuries. Set in and around Lake Taupo, the [book] explores the shadows between two worlds - the living and the dead; Maori and Pakeha; past and present ..."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- New Zealand fiction – 21st century.
- Note
- Novel.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781869506391 (pbk.)
- 1869506391 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 156224920
- SCSB-10938651
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library