The Plumb Trilogy

Résumé du livre

The Trilogy brings together the three novels Plumb, Megand Sole Survivorto set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand literature.

In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the Wattie Book of the Year Award.

Megcontinues the family story with George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a backdrop of family traumas and world wars.

Sole Survivorfocuses on the career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage against that of his relationship to Duggie.