Kay McKenzie Cooke

Craggan Dhu. Kay McKenzie Cooke

The peace that cousins Niz and Lia McGregor had hoped to find by each coming back to live in their old home town, could well be compromised with the arrival of young Dallisse, Niz's granddaughter, for an extended stay. Ex-resident Finnbarr Reilly's visit after decades of living in Auckland, farther unsettles the cousins. Both historical and present-day characters with links to this coastal Western Southland town of Craggan Dhu (Craggie, ) struggle to come to grips with repercussions from their own spontaneous actions and held secrets. Through a host of voices from the past, the formerly hidden burbles from history's underground stream are slowly revealed, forcing the past and the present to culminate in surprising revelations and awakenings