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2000s: A young boy falls from a balcony and his mother is not talking.
After the Fall
What you need to know before your trail
The move to New Zealand as a family was not going to be easy – Martha’s husband Kit wants to start painting as a career, twins Charlie and Finn want an adventure, but sixteen year old Sacha really doesn’t want to go at all.
Once in New Zealand, on a winter’s night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He’s fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn’s fall looks like a horrible accident; after all, he’s prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother, Martha McNamara, knows how it happened. And she isn’t telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever.
Travel Guide
England to New Zealand
A move across the world is supposed to solve problems but sometimes it just adds to them. A family with various reasons to go to New Zealand. Travelling as a family but tragedy travels with them. A strange country changes people – the move to New Zealand as a family was not going to be easy and at first they see it as an idyllic life style what with the scenery there to be painted and enjoyed. Even the cover depicts children running as free as the wind, on the beach. New Zealand is known for its beaches and blue sea so what could be more evocative than that cover?
Through Martha’s eyes, we travel with her as she remembers their time in England and why they moved to New Zealand and in parrticular, the highs and the lows that they encountered.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: After the Fall
Author/ Guide: Charity Norman Destination: Hawke’s Bay, Napier Departure Time: 2000s
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