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390 p.
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy writes an essay as part of his homework, and uncovers a secret from World War II. This triggers a chain of events which rips a close community apart. It is Auckland, 1956. New Zealand was spared the destruction which ravaged Europe and Asia but bitter memories and old enmities remain. The war may be over but, as the boy discovers, it is not yet done with.