Author(s): Kevin Ireland

NZ Non Fiction

Kevin Ireland leads the reader out the back, through the mangroves, under the bridge and over the moon in this delightful memoir. We meet the characters - for characters they are - who precede him, give birth to him, laugh with him, fight over him. We explore with him the landscape of his childhood in Takapuna and Cambridge, we are his intrepid companions on fishing expeditions, we share his outrage at the indignities of the education system, and we linger with him over the books that finally become his life. Winner - history and biography section 1999 Montana Book Awards.