KORIMAKO

About the Book

Set in New Zealand’s beautiful Golden Bay region, Korimako is a story of unanticipated love and new beginnings. Mike Robinson, recently retired and widowed, decides to restart his life and build a log house in Puponga, a remote settlement at the base of Farewell Spit. Mereana Marshall’s marriage was never founded on love and has ended with physical abuse. She escapes to Puponga to decide her future. Mike and Mereana meet and a relationship develops, despite their different cultural backgrounds and twenty-year age difference, but their peaceful idyll in Puponga is threatened when they discover hidden cannabis plantations and experience the wrath of the drug dealers involved.

About the Author

David Nelson was born in Oxford, England, but has lived most of his life New Zealand. He particularly enjoys writing about personal relationships and how people deal with societal issues, against the backdrop of their cultural experience and history. Before creative writing became his main pursuit David was a Chief Executive in the voluntary welfare sector. He lives in Richmond, northern South Island, with his wife, Glen. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.