Author(s): Maurice Gee

NZ Fiction

For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize.Is he also a murderer?And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and so, decades later, is drawn to examine their lives.