Memoir books from New Zealand
Recommended memoir books (11)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from New Zealand for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry EN
Country: Oceania / New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, KaikÅura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history. Chessie rebuilds her family's lives on the page, from her parents' honeymoon across Africa, to living in Tokelau as one of five children under ten before returning to New Zealand, where her mother would set her heart and home in the C... continue