The Thread

Résumé du livre

Jack has come home to New Zealand. He's getting old and he's tired. When Jack sets off by boat from the coast, inland along a meandering tidal river to his hometown, he's doing a favour for the Australian police or so he hopes. Along the way, while discovering sites of what might be unexplained or even ancient occupation, he runs into trouble in Northland's forests and wetlands. Nineenth-century battles between British colonisers and indigenous Maori leave scars for Jack to find, and the past but ever-present events of his ancestors spill over, into, and through his journey.