Limestone

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Limestone
Fiona Farrell
Vintage, Random House NZ
ISBN 978-1-86979-168-1
RRP $29.99

Clare Lacey is on a quest to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls — but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love . . . and limestone.

Fiona Farrell was born in Oamaru and educated in Otago and Toronto. To date she has published three books of poetry, two collections of short stories and five other novels. Her novel The Skinny Louie Book won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1992, and two others were shortlisted for the Montana Book Awards and she has won many other prizes, including the Bruce Mason Award for Playwrights and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton.