TY - BOOK AU - McNeil,Helen TI - A place to stand SN - 9780473221522 AV - PR9708 .M1693P53 2013 U1 - NZ823.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Auckland [N.Z.] PB - Del Sur Productions KW - Families KW - New Zealand KW - Fiction KW - Kawerau (N.Z.) KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 21st century N1 - Novel N2 - "Sandra McLeod arrived as a child in Kawerau, New Zealand, with her British family. It was 1954. But the family's hopes for a new and better life faltered in this raw timber town. At sixteen Sandra fled. All she took with her were numbness and denial. Fifteen years later, a letter arrives and Sandra, now a successful real estate agent, knows she must go back. Back to her mother's vacant eyes and the secrets of the McLeod family. Back to unpick her past and to learn about loss, grief, mothering, and perhaps a chance of finding home"--Author's website ER -