The Lie That Settles: A Memoir - Softcover

Farrell, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0473293439 ISBN 13: 9780473293437

Publisher: Petone Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Peter Farrell is not the first person to discover he is illegitimate but few have been brave enough to provide such an illuminating account of the events that led to the search for a parent. This rich and compelling memoir reveals a surprising personal history behind an apparently conventional life. Through Peter's mother, Marion, we are taken from an East End munitions factory in the First World War and a 1920s mental health institution to the bohemian free school movement, and learn what sacrifices a mother can make for her child. Peter's own life experiences are forged on a childhood of institutional living with little concept of normal family life. As a new immigrant sent to work on a remote prison farm in New Zealand, it takes Peter many years and encounters to finally understand what Maori mean by the word 'whanau'.The Lie That Settles is a powerful story of loss, love and survival spanning nine decades and two continents.

About this title

From the Author:

The first edition of The Lie That Settles was launched in Wellington, September 2013, by the end of September 2013 it was 3rd on the New Zealand bookshops best seller list behind the Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries.  The second edition takes advantage of the power of the Internet to make the book available to a much wider world-wide audience in both print and eBook format. 

From the Back Cover:

"I have just read The Lie That Settles and I write at once to say I was moved by it (to tears) and how full of admiration that you took the journey you did and have told the tale so well"- Michael King  on reading an early draft "I love the book. I was interested, absorbed and often very moved." - Dame Fiona Kidman "An impressive work. A huge journey full of wonder, sadness, hope and consciousness. It captured me completely."- Norman Bilbrough"A thoroughly engaging and affecting family story."- Graeme Lay

About this edition

• Publisher: Petone Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0473293439
• ISBN 13: 9780473293437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234