‘I had so little experience of Māoridom, instead judging it, as people often do with many races, when they haven’t been immersed in that culture. It’s only now that I can see how one-sided and ill-informed my world view was.’
Annah Stretton describes her life as a game of Snakes and Ladders: a few steps up, only to slide back down again.
But in her latest book, Grit Before Grace, the fashion designer and entrepreneur admits she was definitely having a “ladder” kind of day when she decided to write this 240-page ode to navigating life’s challenges.
The Morrinsville woman, whose clothing designs are as colourful and
