Hoods Landing

A wry and cinematic family drama about the revelations that surface when everyone comes home for Christmas, shortlisted for New Zealand’s biggest literary prize.

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‘Funny, moving and alive with family lore’ Catherine Chidgey

‘A gift to queer literature’ Pip Adam

‘Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them.’

The Gordon girls are no strangers to local gossip. Growing up with a mystic grannie and a mother in a lesbian relationship with the reverend will do that to a family. But for Rita – the fifty-year-old baby sister, back in the village for possibly the final time – there is nowhere else quite like home.

As four generations gather beneath the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree, and