Author(s): Joanna Orwin

NZ Fiction

Laura Anne Findlay lives among giants - the mighty kauri trees of the Coromandel forest. It is the 1920s, and the last remnants of kauri forest are being cleared for timber and farmland. When Laura's father becomes ill, the family is split up. Laura's mother takes a job as a bush cook in a kauri logging camp, with Laura as her offsider. In her diary, Laura keeps a record of the rough-and-ready world of the bush camps, and of the tough men and women who lived in them. Based on a true story, Kauri In My Blood is a fascinating glimpse of a lifestyle that has vanished forever.