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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 180 pages. Boo-Eye is a New Zealand colloquialism meaning ten miles from nowhere, up the cr eek without a paddle, all wrong, over the hill and far away, up the gully. Boo-E ye is also the name of the river that runs through Faith, a small valley townshi p north of the towns Hope and Charity. Set in the 1950s, in a community still co ming to terms with its colonial past and bearing the scars of the recent Second World War, The Boo-Eye takes the reader seamlessly from the present to the past, slowly revealing events that have shaped the characters and their lives. The st ory centres around three young men from Faith who set off up the Boo-Eye River o n a quest to discover the origins of an old and mysterious photograph. Family, f riends and acquaintances feature, as legends, memories and history influence the outcome of the young men's odyssey.…