
2009 Longlist
Drybread
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A graveyard is all that’s left of the remote Central Otago settlement of Drybread, which miners, often hungry and disappointed, once searched for gold. It is to an old cottage nearby that Penny Maine-King flees with her young son, defying a Californian court order awarding custody of the child to her estranged husband. And seeking her in this austere, burnt country is journalist Theo Esler. He is after a story, but he discovers something far more personal and significant.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A moving story of love and disappointment, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power and significance of landscape in our lives.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
New Zealand
Original Language
English
Publisher
Random House New Zealand
Nominating Library