Author(s): Bernard Beckett

Art

2009 Montana Book Awards FICTION Category Runner-up It's election day in New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist's political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community. A staffroom argument flares up - does a playground fight warrant a student's expulsion?. A young girl sets about mending her broken heart,a skinhead riot erupts and Richard,the biology lecturer at the heart of all these events must deal with the secret which drives them all.