The Strength of Eggshells

She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional, but Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores her past by pushing her fingers into her ears. Why did her mother Jane only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a returned soldier in an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And what should Kate do about her own two-pointed love triangle? Somewhere out there are the answers; out where only her motorbike can take her. The Strength of Eggshells explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach.

“The powerful tug of history, the search for identity, an unresolved present, dark ghosts in the past…This is a marvellous New Zealand novel.” TINA SHAW, AUTHOR

The Strength of Eggshells won the New Zealand Booklovers Award 2020 for a first book. It will shortly be published as an audio book.