Written in English
NZ Book Awards 2008 · Shortlist
The Blue
The Blue
Mary McCallum · 46 when first published
Novel · 282 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:On an isolated island at the mouth of New Zealand's Tory Channel in 1938, a whaler's wife hiding an old grief watches the men set out for the three-month whaling season, the year her troubled elder son comes home.