Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute

Book: The Waters (August 2023)

By Carl Nixon

August 29, 2023

One family

Forty years.

The Waters kinds – practical athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family Samatha – have to face more than their fair share of challenges.  1979 was the year their father sold the farm and invested all the family’s money in a doomed property development next to the ocean in Christchurch.  Is that when everything started going wrong?

Will their bond survive the passage of time or will the three siblings succumb to their parents’ legacy of failure?  Can the past be overcome…and forgiven?