Hummingbird

At a shabby campsite by Ninety Mile Beach in the far north of New Zealand, three strangers arrive separately. Kataraina has come home by way of Sydney's King's Cross, where she worked as a prostitute, grieving a baby she lost. Jordan, freed from Paremoremo prison after doing time for someone else's killing, sleeps in a beached boat among the dunes and holds imagined talks with the child his partner was carrying at the time of his arrest. Kingi, a retired Cambridge don, flew in the Battle of Britain and fought on Crete, and is keeping a promise from the war. Childhood memories have drawn two of them back to this place. When a young woman arrives with her baby daughter, their lives are pulled closer together.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2003

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9781877283666 (Huia Publishers, New Zealand)