A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable stor

&‘You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unp

'Eleven years have passed since that winter of 1986 when I put down my pen on the story of the woman who wore pearls in her hair, my grandmother the matriarch,

A humorous tale with a surprising ending, Witi Ihimaera's inaugural children's book is set in a Grimm-fairytale forest in New Zealand.

"The themes of Woman far walking involve the survival, struggles and resilience of the Maori people, as shown through the life of one woman"--Introd.