TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahony, Kate,
TI  - Secrets of the land
SN  - 9781738594306
PY  - 2023///.
CY  - Auckland, New Zealand : 
PB  - Cloud Ink, 
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Irish
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Taranaki
KW  - Maori (New Zealand people)
KW  - History
KW  - Ringa kaha
KW  - reo
KW  - Pakiwaitara
KW  - Kōrero nehe
KW  - Taranaki (N.Z.)
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - "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
ER  -