Hoods Landing

In a dwindling settlement on Auckland's rural fringe, the Gordon whānau come together over Christmas to celebrate the birthday of Rita's mother, Bufty. Four generations bring their old frictions and private jokes, jealously kept recipes, tarot cards and singalongs. Rita, fifty and still treated as the youngest, plans to break the news that she is ill with cancer, and hers is not the only secret waiting to come out. Drifting through memories and the present day, she lines up the family's dead in her mind, reflects on other women's lives in the district and wonders what lies ahead for her and for a family that includes two old lesbians, a pair of so-called twins and more than one dog named Roger.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

264 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2025 by Āporo Press

ISBN

9780473745684 (Āporo Press, New Zealand)

9781805338437 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)