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Nixon, Carl. The Tally Stick. World Editions, 2022.
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Carl Nixon

The Tally Stick

  • World Editions
  • 2022
  • Taschenbuch
  • 288 Seiten
  • ISBN 9781642860986
  • Carl Nixon is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and playwright. He has written four novels and a number of original plays which have been performed throughout New Zealand. He is published by Penguin in New Zealand and Australia, but has never been published in the US * In The Tally Stick , an upper-class English family arrives in the wilderness of New Zealand only for both parents to be killed in car crash * Trying to survive alone in the wilderness, their children are transformed by the harsh landscape. They are taken in - kidnapped, really - by two locals who keep them
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    for free labor. The authors explores the siblings' differing responses to their radically changed lifestyle * When the remains of one of the children is found 30 years after the accident, the children's British aunt tries to solve the mystery of what happened to the family * A thrilling page-turner and novel of edge-of-the-seat suspense put together like a jigsaw puzzle, with the landscape and weather of the West Coast of New Zealand given a prominent role * This is highly accessible, commercial fiction * Film rights sold to Blondini Brothers, a producer from New Zealand

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