‘Step inside the childhood adventures of Stu Duval and find yourself living in State Land for a while. This evocative memory of Kiwi life holds precious jewels for anyone who has grown up with New Zealand somewhere deep within their bones.
Stu has an extraordinary ability to make you smell the trees, hear the crashing of waves on the beach and feel the dark, damp cold of a lonely bedroom in a state house. A nearby valley becomes a grand adventure land, where the ordinary landscape of childhood is transformed into something wild, mysterious and wonderfully imaginative. The everyday things we have all taken for granted become, through Stu’s tremendous storytelling, extraordinary adventures, drawing us to the very precipice of a young lad’s imagination and his unfolding map for life.
At times a rip-roaring thriller, at others dashed with a hint of romance, and always carrying the sense of a grand adventure contained within the confines of one street, State Land is a delightful ode to things past. It is a myriad of memories, sights, sounds and experiences woven together with imagination, humour and heart. A ripping yarn that will make you laugh, reminisce and perhaps take you back to that magical, slightly wild place where you first began to grow up.- Andrew Hoggard, Author & Communicator
NB SUITABLE FOR MATURE READERS
‘Step inside the childhood adventures of Stu Duval and find yourself living in State Land for a while. This evocative memory of Kiwi life holds precious jewels for anyone who has grown up with New Zealand somewhere deep within their bones.
Stu has an extraordinary ability to make you smell the trees, hear the crashing of waves on the beach and feel the dark, damp cold of a lonely bedroom in a state house. A nearby valley becomes a grand adventure land, where the ordinary landscape of childhood is transformed into something wild, mysterious and wonderfully imaginative. The everyday things we have all taken for granted become, through Stu’s tremendous storytelling, extraordinary adventures, drawing us to the very precipice of a young lad’s imagination and his unfolding map for life.
At times a rip-roaring thriller, at others dashed with a hint of romance, and always carrying the sense of a grand adventure contained within the confines of one street, State Land is a delightful ode to things past. It is a myriad of memories, sights, sounds and experiences woven together with imagination, humour and heart. A ripping yarn that will make you laugh, reminisce and perhaps take you back to that magical, slightly wild place where you first began to grow up.- Andrew Hoggard, Author & Communicator
NB SUITABLE FOR MATURE READERS