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She has grown up, left her Otago home, and returned, and in all these years, books have shaped her life and made sense of the world — offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from \u003cem\u003eThe Little Red Hen\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eOwls Do Cry\u003c\/em\u003e, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. 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Unfolding within its rooms are lives filled with event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. The tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and princesses to new waves of music, art, architecture, and political ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, a few metres away in the river, another creature follows a different, slower rhythm. Beneath them all, the planet moves to its own immense geological time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith insight, wide-ranging knowledge, and humour, this novel explores the same territory as its non-fiction twin, \u003cem\u003eThe Villa at the Edge of the Empire\u003c\/em\u003e. Writing in a city devastated by major earthquakes, Fiona Farrell rebuilds a brilliant, compelling, and imaginative structure from bits and pieces salvaged from one hundred years of history. A lot has happened. 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So, as well as the impressive detail made especially graceful thanks to the author's poetic skill, the narrative follows one house settled upon the titular street and its inhabitants, particularly one family, extended and diverse. As such, chapter by chapter are, like a relay team, an exercise in passing the chronological story along. . . . 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