Author(s): Elizabeth Knox

NZ Fiction

'He had something to show her, he said. He sat on his narrow lumpy bed and patted the cover beside him. He unfolded a long concertina of pictures - like The Silhouette Theatre, Steph explained - of men and women doing things to each other. It was old, this pamphlet, with the ink gone in its creases; it was silent, and insinuating.' Steph is ten and in trouble. Lex is thirteen and wants to save her sister. But being a saviour is harder than it seems. Tawa concludes Elizabeth Knoz's acclaimed trilogy (with Paremata and Pomare) of autobiographical novellas.