Harbouring

Holly says: "A fantastic exhibit at the Aotearoa New Zealand Maritime Museum featured a collection of stories about colonization: those who traveled from afar to start a new life, the Indigenous peoples who were displaced, and how they learned to live together. This novel explores some stories like these, tracing a Welsh family who came to seek a better life, an enslaved woman hoping for freedom and reunion, and the birth of the city of Wellington. Pattrick is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s well-known historical fiction writers, setting most of her works in locations throughout the country."