Across the Dreaming Night

Quentin Stanley forms an unlikely bond with a young hairdresser, Charlotte, whose own story is told in the book. Then an accident leaves him damaged in mind and body, and his baby daughter is rescued from it by Matt, a young man with a troubled adolescence behind him. Matt hides the child, cares for her and comes to love her, while his brother Scott and Scott's girlfriend Fritha see his attachment as a sign of old troubles. Several people who come across Matt and the baby grow suspicious, and the deception draws unwilling people into a dangerous, emotionally charged situation in which a father has lost his only child.

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About the book

Form

Novel

First published

2000

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9781869414122 (Vintage, New Zealand)