<p>Rick has a bit of a mid-life crisis and Hazel carries on coping. But as the two work through their break-up and its fall-out - Rick in Australia and Hazel in New Zealand - events at a country swimming-hole one summer long ago begin to haunt them both.</p>

Leaving for Townsville

Tate, Bronwyn

Literature & Fiction

Otago Univ Pr

Russian Dolls is a novel with a large framework - generations of the same New Zealand family back to 1868, a woman of today uncovering the tale of her maiden great aunt and a soldier in World War I. In the process she finds other family stories against which her own experience since she left home stormily at the age of seventeen reverberates. The landscape is as important in this novel as the people, taking the reader from a quiet rural valley to the trenches of war-torn Europe, and closing on a Nelson beach where the sea crept in and out across the sand flats and the line between sea and sky is invisible.

Russian Dolls

History & Criticism

<p>An old-fashioned garden in Christchurch, painted by Margaret Stoddart in about 1910 is featured on the cover of this beautiful novel by Bronwyn Tate. In the foreground glows a bed of beautiful irises. In the language of flowers, the iris signifies "I have a message for you". As a symbol, it was the fleur-de-lys of the royal family of France, known as the Flower of Chivalry, with a sword for its leaves and a lily for its heart. The author weaves these images through the lives of ten very different contemporary people and their experiences of giving birth, of loss and rediscovery.</p>

Halfway to Africa

Literary

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Leaving for Townsville

Russian Dolls

Halfway to Africa