Access Road

by Maurice Gee

The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back.  Rowan, too, safe in 'upper crusty' Takapuna, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'.

The past is dangerously alive.  Clyde Buckely, violent as a boy, enigmatic, subterranean as an old man, returns to his childhood territory.  What does he want?  What crimes does he hide?  And how is Lionel involved?  Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out .

(From Publisher).

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s best know writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, The Deutz Medal for Fiction and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won the New Zealand Children’s Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received the inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.
Maurice Gee’s novels include the Plumb trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies, and The Scornful Moon.  He has also written a number of children’s novels the most recent being Salt and Gool.