Guest Post: Coral Atkinson Discusses The Beginnings Of Her New Novel, “Passing Through”

Introduction:

It is some years now since Coral Atkinson and I served together on the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors, but we have remained in touch. Coral is an historical novelist who has published two previous adult works (The Love Apple and The Paua Tower) and a junior novel, Copper Top.

Her latest novel, the recently published Passing Through, traces the lives of four people as they come to terms with the wreckage left behind by the First World War — a story that tak...