Photo: Makaro Press/Stewart Nimmo
Kataraina is the highly anticipated sequel to West Coast writer Becky Manawatu's best seller Auē.
In Auē eight-year-old Ārama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikōura, setting in train a tragedy. Ārama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events. In Kataraina, Kat and her whānau take over the telling.
Auē won Aotearoa's leading fiction prizes and became one of the country's all-time fiction bestsellers. It's gone on to sell well in both the UK and US and has been translated in six languages.
Becky Manawatu speaks with Susie about her latest work.
