The lonely margins of the sea

by Shonagh Koea

Stephanie revisits a childhood haunt close to the margins of the sea in order to see her cousin who is recuperating from an operation in her home. As a child, Stephanie was always on the margins, but her immediate past is full of skeletons.

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Shonagh Koea has published short stories, novels and memoir. She won the Air New Zealand Short Story Award (1981), her novel Sing to Me, Dreamer was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards (1995), and The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction (1999). She has held the University of Auckland Fellowship in Literature (1993) and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship (1997).

The Kindness of Strangers: Kitchen Memoirs is a collection of Koea's memories from her various roles as daughter, wife, mother, journalist and novelist, and as such serves as a social history of New Zealand of the past 50 years.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riveting. I love the description of the old house

[Megan Clemance · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good short book.

[Vincent Konrad]

Mama suggested this one because 'we have always lived in the castle' sounded similar, and she was right. obviously they are different books, but I also liked this one.