Quick Blue Fire - Softcover

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Along with all the time travel in between, the novel's present-day setting
begins with a funeral in 2019 and ends with a wedding a year later in
pre-Covid, early 2020. The marriage between fiery, freewheeler Rosie Flowers
and the steady, attentive Mack Ackland, not only allows the Pakeha
and Māori branches of the McGregor whanau to become even more intertwined,
but also creates a good reason for the McGregor clan's story, as told so far,
to strike a sweet note
Using a variety of voices hailing from both past and present, Quick Blue Fire
conveys connecting stories within the McGregor family. While attending the
2019 interment of mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Alison
McGregor in the wind-blasted, southern coastal town of Craggan Dhu (Craggie),
present-day tensions, along with revelations informed by the past,
wend back and forth - from mid-19th century Scotland,
India and Tasmania, Australia, to 20th-century New Zealand,
when young Gordie McGregor lands in the deep south of the South
Island. Gordie meets and marries local Craggie resident, Gladys Hogan.
When their son, Sandy McGregor, marries fellow Craggie
resident, Alison Wilde, a mixed-race element
is introduced into this family saga. Three generations later,
in the 21st century, underlying tensions are finally confronted
when the McGregor grandchildren and great grandchildren,
seek accountability, as well as the chance for love and new beginnings.
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