Unity Books Wellington and HarperCollins New Zealand
warmly welcome you to celebrate the launch of
Going South
A
ROAD TRIP THROUGH LIFE
By Colin Hogg
In
conversation with
Patrick Gower
Thursday 5th November 12-12.45pm
Unity Books Wellington
57 Willis Street
It was late afternoon
and a few of us were sitting about in the sun having a drink on my birthday
when the friend I've known the longest sat down opposite and looked at me like
he was going to say something serious.
He was, and he got
straight to it. He had health issues, he said, in a tone that put the issues
word in ironic quotes. He'd been to see his doctor the previous day. He had
maybe a year, he said. Maybe a bit more.
I was so shocked by
what he told me that, after an initial gasp, I said the only thing that seemed
to make any sense to me in the circumstances. We should go away for a road
trip, I blurted out.
He nodded as if he
knew I was going to say that. Back south, he said.
Yeah, I said back to
him.
South meant
Southland, where our story started, 46 years earlier. And that was the end of
that conversation. Within weeks the trip was all booked and ready to roll. I
felt nervous.
A road trip about
memory, mateship and mortality, into the heartland of a New Zealand that still
exists and still surprises.
All Welcome.
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