THE SPACE BETWEEN
by Lauren Keenan
(Penguin)
It’s early 1860 in Ngāmotu New Plymouth and the highly contentious purchase of the Waitara Block is being finalised. Pākehā are building stockades around the settlement and militia are pouring in. Māori and Europeans know war between them is imminent. These weeks before the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars act as a historical backdrop to Lauren Keenan’s novel.
The novel explores