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In My Father's Den Maurice Gee

In My Father's Den By Maurice Gee

In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee


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Summary

Originally published in 1972. Now a major feature film, critically acclaimed both here and in New Zealand. When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park on Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer.

In My Father's Den Summary

In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee

When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past - which proves as secret as his father's den in the old poison shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before a family has been split apart and old wounds revealed. In My Father's Den is Maurice Gee's third novel and was first published in 1972. It is now an international feature film of the same name. In My Father's Den is directed by Brad McGann and Produced by Trevor Haysom and Dixie Linder, and stars Matthew Macfayden, Miranda Otto and Emily Barclay. Also available as an eBook

About Maurice Gee

Maurice Gee has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults and young adults and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. Maurice lives in Nelson, in New Zealand's South Island, with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.

Additional information

GOR001646860
9780143019411
0143019414
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Group (NZ)
2004-09-01
176
N/A
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