Author(s): Maurice Shadbolt

New Zealand Literature | Literary biography

Compelling and revealing, From the Edge of the Sky continues the often hectic and sometimes poignant tale of the life and times of New Zealand's most distinguished storyteller. As lively as his novels, this new memoir teems with the often improbable New Zealanders who have coloured Shadbolt's life as a writer: his forebears, friends, neighbours, relatives, children, lovers and wives, and unruly fellow authors.