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Mahony, Kate,

Secrets of the land / Kate Mahony. - Auckland, New Zealand : Cloud Ink, 2023. - 269 pages ; 24 cm

"Imogen Maguire is bewildered when in 2018 she is accosted in a Melbourne Street by a mysterious stranger who says her grandfather in New Zealand needs her help. But her grandfather is dead, isn’t he? A former journalist, Imogen decides to investigate and travels to Taranaki where she finds that her grandfather is very much alive, and someone is trying to frighten the old man off his farm. A long shadow hangs over her grandfather’s land stretching from 1864, when two young Irishmen join the British army in its fight against the Taranaki Māori, to 1975, when Imogen’s grandparents arrive fleeing trouble in Ireland. Their daughter Aoife, Imogen’s mother, hates the new country her parents have brought her to, yet she knows it is impossible to return to Ireland. The Irish man she encounters sheltering in a hedge is as lost as she is. And why does Matiu, her one friend, warn her off exploring the swamp? Ghosts from the past haunt the present, and the land holds its sexrets. But some secrets won’t stay hidden."--Bookcover.

ISBN: 9781738594306 1738594300

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Grandfathers--Fiction.
Journalists--Fiction.
Land tenure--New Zealand --Fiction.
Irish--New Zealand --Fiction.
Farm life--New Zealand --Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Māori (New Zealand people)--New Zealand--Taranaki--Fiction.
Maori (New Zealand people)--History--Fiction.
Ringa kaha.
Pakiwaitara.
Kōrero nehe.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Taranaki (N.Z.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
New Zealand fiction--21st century.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction