Return to Harikoa Bay

‘Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it’s always in a strong wind, and that’s blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.’So begins one of Owen Marshall’s superbly subversive stories. He offers up a wide range of subjects, from untimely deaths to unusual discoveries made about friends or neighbours, from burnishing an overseas trip to a tale about saving a business‘Just in time,’ said Paddy. ‘I thought I was going to have to resort to giving blow jobs in the office.’ It wasn’t quite as Jane A would have expressed relief, perhaps, but sincere in its own way . . .With over ten years since his last collection of new stories, Marshall explores his fellow New Zealanders, bringing his wisdom and wry eye to his vivid, insightful‘Places bring back people, people bring back places, and both conjure the cinema of your past.’

Please note this copy has light creases on the cover and light scuffs on the edges of the covers.

ISBN: 9780143776536

Size: Trade Paperback, 288 pages

Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ

Published: 2019