Past Perfect

by Karen Zelas

Overview

Past Perfect is a story of love and loss, prejudice and resolution, as well as the search for selfhood.

Prompted by a brush with mortality, her children approaching adulthood and the relationship with her husband being tested, Sue Spencer embarks on a search for meaning in her life–for a better sense of who she might be.

Her quest takes her to to Akaroa, to France and back, tracing her genealogy, but her discoveries are unexpected and place further pressure on strained family relationships.

Set in modern day Christchurch and France, with a backdrop of the 1840 French settlement of Akaroa, the novel is enriched by the diversity and complexity that make up our past.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015014105
Publisher:	IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Publication date:	07/31/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	960 KB

About the Author

Karen Zelas lives in quake-struck Christchurch. A former psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she returned to university, taking creative writing papers at Canterbury University in preparation for giving up her day job.

In 2009, she was the recipient of a Creative Communities grant. Karen is editor of the anthology Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury, prose and poetry (Wily Publications, 2009). For the last five years, Karen has been Fiction Editor of Takahē literary magazine and chairs the Takahē Collective Board. Her stories have been published in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, and broadcast on radio.

She is married with children, grandchildren and a child-substitute: a miniature poodle.