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  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9781742288376
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 312

Crocus Hour



In a village café 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 he has come to Crete to explore the baffling circumstances of her disappearance.
For Davis there are painful unanswered questions. What happened to Sally? Who was to blame for her mysterious disappearance? Was it an accident?  Davis soon has to confront the painful possibility that Sally herself may have planned a deliberate flight from a too-protective father. And who was the real Sally?
From the author of the award-winning The Curative, The Crocus Hour is a spellbinding journey through shifting passages of time, posing questions about how well we really know those close to us.

  • Published: 1 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9781742288376
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 312

About the author

Charlotte Randall

Charlotte Randall is an award-winning author. 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. Her second novel, The Curative, was joint-runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. What Happen Then, Mr Bones? was a finalist for the same award in 2005. Her latest novel, The Bright Side of My Condition, was a finalist for the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Prize for Fiction.

Randall was born and raised in Dunedin, New Zealand, and now lives on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch.

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