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Maurice Gee

Maurice Gee is a distinguished fiction writer. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for his adult fiction and also for his young adult and children's books. Maurice Gee was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists in 2003. His short stories and novels are well-known for their real or imaginatively reworked local settings, dysfunctional families and sketches of violence. Gee's numerous publications, and his wide readership, have contributed to his status as one of New Zealand's most significant writers.

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Title:: Access Road
Written by:: Maurice Gee
Read by:: Heather Bolton
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 5
Duration:: 5 hours 15 minutes
Published:: August 01 2012
Available Date:: August 28 2012
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781743118993
Genres:: Fiction; Family Sagas; General Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2013

"Access Road is a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; a beautifully crafted work of literature and a seductive family story."
New Zealand Book Council

"Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career."
WildTomato (NZ)

A literary offering that trancends typical crime thrillers.

As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley - violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old man - returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out … Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.

"Gee is our greatest writer."
Paula Morris, NZ Listener