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What does a place mean? An old kauri villa with a one-roomed school attached is the place that has sustained a writer, Beryl Fletcher, through turbulent years and an obsessive love. Sent away at the age of six for a few months to the house at Karamu, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight, listening to the call of the moreporks. Karamu became a symbolic landscape of safety that helped her to survive.

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"This Kiwi writer reflects on her past 40 years, incorporating her childhood through to her marriage and motherhood. You'll be tempted to plough through this in one sitting, but if you try and rush through it you won't do Beryl's poetic style any justice." --Rachelle Macintosh, "New Idea"

The House at Karamu

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    A Paperback / softback by Fletcher Beryl

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      Publisher: Spinifex Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/08/2003
      ISBN13: 9781876756352, 978-1876756352
      ISBN10: 1876756357
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What does a place mean? An old kauri villa with a one-roomed school attached is the place that has sustained a writer, Beryl Fletcher, through turbulent years and an obsessive love. Sent away at the age of six for a few months to the house at Karamu, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight, listening to the call of the moreporks. Karamu became a symbolic landscape of safety that helped her to survive.

      Trade Review
      "This Kiwi writer reflects on her past 40 years, incorporating her childhood through to her marriage and motherhood. You'll be tempted to plough through this in one sitting, but if you try and rush through it you won't do Beryl's poetic style any justice." --Rachelle Macintosh, "New Idea"

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