Book description
A fabulous multi-levelled novel, shortlisted for the NZ Post Book
Awards. Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art history
conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to
buy a packet of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is
urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a
blind man at a crossroads, a singer whose song she does not understand .
. . Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue
lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The
Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about
inheritance, belief, art, love . . . and limestone. Shortlisted for the
Montana Book Award. Born in Oamaru and educated at Otago and Toronto,
Fiona Farrell has been writing since the 1980s. She has published books
of poetry, collections of short stories and novels. Her novel The Skinny
Louie Book won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1992, several
of her other novels have been shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand
Book Awards and she has won many other prizes, including the Bruce Mason
Award for Playwrights and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton.
