Tremain Mines Our Past

The latest offering from award-winning British author, Rose Tremain, finds its inspiration in mid-19th century NZ and thwarted edge expectations: “We will not cling to familiar ways. We will imagine ourselves reborn over there. On the acres I am buying, everything will begin afresh.” The Colour – a tale of “bush rats and broken lives” – unfolds amidst the harsh extremes of heat and cold of the Southern Alps’ Kaniere and Kokatahi goldfields.