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What the Tides Remember: A New Zealand Coming-of-age; the '50s to the '70s
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ISBN13: 9798276363653
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 27 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 27 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A tender and evocative coming-of-age story set across mid-century New Zealand - where memory moves like the tide, returning the moments that shape a life.
Spanning the 1950s through the 1970s, What the Tides Remember gathers ten beautifully crafted stories that follow a boy growing up in a changing New Zealand. From childhood summers on the vast sands of Ninety Mile Beach to the whispered conversations of post-war Auckland households, each story reveals another layer of innocence, longing, and discovery.
Spanning the 1950s through the 1970s, What the Tides Remember gathers ten beautifully crafted stories that follow a boy growing up in a changing New Zealand. From childhood summers on the vast sands of Ninety Mile Beach to the whispered conversations of post-war Auckland households, each story reveals another layer of innocence, longing, and discovery.
As he watches the adults around him navigate the aftershocks of war, the quiet tensions of family life, and the complicated pull of desire, he begins to understand how identity is formed - not through grand events, but through the small, unspoken moments that linger in memory. A mother's departure on the Oriana. A reunion that stirs forgotten yearning. The first tremors of attraction. The reckonings that arrive unexpectedly in adulthood.
Moving, lyrical, and deeply human, this collection forms a rich tapestry of New Zealand life and one young man's journey through it.
Perfect for readers of literary fiction, New Zealand historical fiction, and reflective memoir-style narratives, What the Tides Remember offers an unforgettable portrait of growing up in a country - and a family - transformed by time.
This collected edition brings together several previously published stories, newly revised and curated into one continuous, immersive reading experience.
Moving, lyrical, and deeply human, this collection forms a rich tapestry of New Zealand life and one young man's journey through it.
Perfect for readers of literary fiction, New Zealand historical fiction, and reflective memoir-style narratives, What the Tides Remember offers an unforgettable portrait of growing up in a country - and a family - transformed by time.
This collected edition brings together several previously published stories, newly revised and curated into one continuous, immersive reading experience.
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