| Author: | Owen Marshall | ISBN: | 9780143773160 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House New Zealand | Publication: | February 5, 2019 |
| Imprint: | RHNZ Adult ebooks | Language: | English |
| Author: | Owen Marshall |
| ISBN: | 9780143773160 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House New Zealand |
| Publication: | February 5, 2019 |
| Imprint: | RHNZ Adult ebooks |
| Language: | English |
This entertaining and insightful novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries. He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town, of which he is the second-term mayor. Popular, happily married, well established, he cuts an impressive figure, especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall?
This entertaining and insightful novel both skewers and celebrates small-town New Zealand. Pat `Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries. He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town, of which he is the second-term mayor. Popular, happily married, well established, he cuts an impressive figure, especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall?
