Kehua
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Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivekehua0000weld_q5u5
- ISBN-101848874596
- ISBN-101848876882
- ISBN-139781848874596
- ISBN-139781848876880
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2010533217
- OCLC Control Number620352046
- Better World Books9781848874596
- Better World Books9781848876880
- Open LibraryOL26464210M
Classifications
- DDC823.914
- LCCPR6073.E374 K44 2010
- LCCPR6073.E374
Description
"Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua - a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet - a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order - has announced to Beverley - her aged grandmother - that she intends to leave home and husband for the glamorous actor, Jackson Wright - he of the vampire films. Beverley may be well on her way to her ninth decade, but she's not beyond using this intelligence to stir up a little trouble. Quite how they became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer's tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with them."--
Description
A young woman flees New Zealand in the wake of a murder and suicide but on settling in Muswell Hill discovers she's being haunted by kehua, Maori ghosts searching for their ancestral home and forced to remain on earth. They are not dangerous and often try to be helpful ... except they tend to get things wrong.
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