The Crocus Hour
The Crocus Hour - Charlotte Randall
Penguin Group (NZ), ISBN 978-014300-892-7, $28.00 pbk
In Crete, 1981, a young backpacker is befriended by a troubled New Zealander, Henry Davis. He reveals that his daughter Sally vanished from the island two years earlier and has come to Crete to explore the baffling circumstances of her disappearance. For Davis there are painful unanswered questions. He soon has to confront the possibility that his treasured daughter may not have been quite what she seemed, at least to him.
Charlotte Randall is the award-winning author of Within the Kiss. Her first novel, Dead Sea Fruit, won the South East Asian/South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book and the Reed Fiction Award in 1995 and her second novel, The Curative, was joint runner-up for the Deutz Medal for fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Randall has a background in psychological research and is now a full-time writer. Born and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand, she now lives in Christchurch with her husband and two children.
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