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Softcover published by Picador 1983
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The powerful, visionary, Booker Awardwinning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage.
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family.
One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitora speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession.