Whakaari
Price: $29.99 NZD
Published by Marion Day
Will be available in all good bookstores and online.
National Distributor (Trade):
David Bateman Ltd info@bateman.co.nz
Roa is a troubled teen.
She is from a small town and has too many dads.
She lives near Whakaari/White Island, which
is both beautiful and dangerous.
Roa is being crushed by the weight of two secrets. The men her mother has brought into their lives have damaged her. Although her mother is aware of this, she has no idea that Roa is a criminal.
Whakaari never leaves Roa. She hangs out with her street gang and compares the volcano to her own feelings. A botched robbery, a rash encounter with a boy. Can she escape the ruins?
I kick the agapanthus overhanging the path in Mum’s bitser garden. Bitser flowers, bitser vegetables. Nah! No bitsers when it comes to weeds. I take the rusty clippers and trim the glossy, fleshy aga leaves away from the path. Clear blood hangs in long drips from their cuts, kinda like smashed spiderwebs. Everything’s broken. Everything’s bleeding. Whakaari. Plant. Me.
2022
Marion is delighted to be working with Kiwi and International Illustrator Richard Hoit on Elton the Flying Crane - a children’s picture book series beginning with four titles. Elton, the third biggest helicopter in the world, fights wildfires and carries heavy-lift jobs and rescues. It’s a super-exciting series and children are sure to fall in love with Elton and his friends, Connie the helicopter and Flaps the aeroplane bomber.
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Marion is a member of:
- New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA)
- Storylines
- Rural Women New Zealand
- NZSA Top of the South
- Writers of Marlborough
- Writers in Schools Programme