Cousins - Paperback

by Patricia Grace (Author)

Now a feature film streaming on Netflix

This is a stunning novel about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to survive, about the place of women in a shifting world.Makareta is the chosen one--carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer--the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting--for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forties to the present, from the country to the protests of the cities, Cousins is the story of these three cousins. Thrown together as children, they have subsequently grown apart, yet they share a connection that can never be broken.

Author Biography

Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She has published seven novels and seven short-story collections, as well as a number of books for children and works of non-fiction. She has won many awards. She lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.