About this title.
When Jonathan sees a crime the night he decides to run away from home everything changes for him.
He is threatened by the Black Power that if he says anything about what he has seen his house will be torched. Frightened, but not able to tell his father, he becomes bad tempered and rude.
His father decides that he should spend the Christmas holidays at Mangawhai with a relative. Jonathan who has no idea where Mangawhai is doesn’t want to go, but on
arrival it isn’t so bad and he becomes friendly with Anna who is a science student studying the fairy terns which nest at Mangawhai.
This is a story with a conservation thread, but it also about a boy who finds out that he really isn’t a silly ‘pom’
and that he can do quite good things.
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About this Author.
I have an MA in English from the University of Auckland, and I have lectured and tutored in Creative Writing Papers for Massey University.
I am a published author of three books – “The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander”, “Shrewd Sanctity: The Story of Kathleen Hall” and “Sailing to Success”.
I have also had magazine articles published and for a year wrote a column for a newspaper until the newspaper folded. I don’t think it was my writing that caused its demise!
Bronwyn, Valda and I met and all got on so well that we started having writing weekends at my home which were times of great fun, and huge output. We also wrote a play together which has only ever been performed once and that was to our book group. It is definitely not for general public consumption. Editing Bronwyn’s book was a work of love and both Valda and I hope that the job is well done and that “Adam’s Ale” is a great success.
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