A challenging book that explores, at least on the face of it, the death in the Tangiwai disaster, Christmas Eve 1953, of 14-year-old Robert Hale, a school friend of the author's. Working indirectly, speaking sometimes in his own voice sometimes in that of the dead boy, Alan Loney patiently and painfully makes a journey into the past to uncover the truth of the events of that night but also the truth about himself and his own childhood.
- ISBN10 0908237928
- ISBN13 9780908237920
- Publish Date 1 November 2000
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 3 June 2006
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint UNSW Press
- Edition 9th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 750
- Language English