Necessary Secrets

Description

Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Secrets, tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult children. The year is told from four different points of view. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70^th birthday.

Necessary Secrets is a searing picture of NZ society today. The family deals with love, loss, financial struggles, drugs, domestic violence, and all the issues that Kiwis deal with daily. As he has done in his plays and his screen-writing, McGee turns a spotlight on the relationships and social issues of New Zealanders. This makes for an entertaining read.

About the author: Greg McGee originally came to literary attention when he wrote the iconic NZ play Foreskin’s Lament. Since then he has had a successful career writing for television, but again broke into the literary consciousness as Alix Bosco winning the inaugural Ngaio Marsh award for crime writing. He also wrote the record-breaking Richie McCaw: The Open Side. The Antipodeans stayed on the NZ fiction bestseller list for months and is published in the UK.