Some forty years after Jesus' death, Judas tries to set the record straight, and refutes his reputation as the betrayer.
'A vivid and engrossing historical novel' Daily Telegraph
Once he watched the white ships sail past Rangitoto Island and dreamed of a future beyond New Zealand. Now he wants only to recapture the past.
"C.K. Stead is challenging, fun, urbane and brilliant. Read him" Spectator
It is late summer, late century, Oxford. Donovan O'Dwyer is dead, but for his fellow expatriate Mike Newall their shared past is still hauntingly alive.