In My Father's Den - Softcover

Maurice Gee

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ISBN 10: 0143019414 ISBN 13: 9780143019411

Publisher: Penguin, 2004

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When Celia Inverarity, aged 17 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 will 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. (Stallanbooks)

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Synopsis:

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 - a past that is 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. This murder mystery is as close to vintage Maurice Gee as you can get. In My Father's Den is Maurice Gee's third novel and was first published by Faber in 1972. The reason for republishing it now is that a New Zealand feature film based on the book will be filmed late this year and released in 2004. In My Father's Den is produced by Trevor Haysom, directed by Brad McGann and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto and Emily Barclay. The film is jointly funded by the British Film Council and the NZ Film Commission. This new edition of the novel will carry a film tie-in cover.

About the Author:

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received an inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received an a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee's novels include the Plumb trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies and The Scornful Moon. He has also written a number of children's novels, the most recent being Salt and Gool. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.

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