Surrender (25 page)

Donna Malane is an award-winning television producer and scriptwriter. She has written for all genres of television, including a number of successful crime dramas.
Surrender
won the inaugural 2010 New Zealand Society of Authors–Pindar Publishing Prize.

Donna lives in Auckland with novelist/poet Ian Wedde.

HarperCollins
Publishers
First published by The New Zealand Society of Authors in 2010
This edition published in 2012
by HarperCollins
Publishers (New Zealand) Limited
PO Box 1, Shortland Street, Auckland 1140

Copyright © Donna Malane 2010

Donna Malane asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

All the characters and events in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Lines from ‘High Country Weather’ quoted in Epigraph and Chapter 30 from James K. Baxter
Collected Poems
. Ed. J.E. Weir. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 32. Permission generously granted by the James K. Baxter Trust.

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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Malane, Donna.
Surrender / Donna Malane.

ISBN 978-1-86950-985-9 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-77549-019-7 (epub)

I. Title.
NZ823.2 — dc 23

Cover design by Cheryl Rowe
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