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by JohnCairney (Author), JohnCairney (Author)

Synopsis

Tam Cochrane is a sickly lad, confined to his bed in Glasgow in the 1880s. His only experience of adventure and the outside world is through books - that is until his father decides to sell up and head for New Zealand. As they take the four-month journey by ship, Tam's health begins to improve, and with it signs of a new Tam, fully engaging in the real world. After arriving in their new country, the family heads to Rotorua and Tarawera, only to be caught in the volcanic eruption of 1886. Having been concussed, Tam wakes up, groggy but still the fit young man he'd been growing into, except he finds he is in Napier, emerging from the ruins of the 1931 earthquake. What has happened to the last 45 years? Why is he still a young man? And who is the other Tam Cochrane, now living like a recluse back in Glasgow? An intriguing story, it is set among the cataclysmic events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and deals with identity, with finding out who we really are in life and with living it to the full.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Random Ho.,New Zealand
Published: 06 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 1869419219
ISBN 13: 9781869419219

Author Bio
John Cairney was brought up in the East End of Glasgow and enjoyed a long career as an actor in film, television and theatre. He has written two volumes of autobiography and a dozen other books, including A Scottish Football Hall of Fame and Heroes Are Forever: The Life and Times of Celtic Legend Jimmy McGrory.