BIRD CHILD
by Patricia Grace (Penguin, $37)
“The despoiling of the natural world, fuelled by human arrogance and ignorace, is a recurring thread.
Patricia Grace’s first published book, in 1975, was a collection of short stories, the first published by a Māori woman writer. Almost 50 years later, she is still writing stories. If the pieces in are her valediction, they express what Grace holds most dear as a writer: stories of her childhood and youth in a loving Māori
