Loop Tracks

It' s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has to fly to Sydney, but the plane is delayed on the tarmac. It' s 2019: Charlie' s tightly contained Wellington life with her grandson Tommy is interrupted by the unexpected intrusions of Tommy' s first girlfriend, Jenna, and the father he has never known, Jim. The year turns, and everything changes again. Loop Tracks is a major New Zealand novel, written in real time against the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic and the New Zealand General Election and euthanasia referendum. 'a powerful and elegantly structured excavation of intergenerational trauma . . . Loop Tracks is a remarkable, timely novel.' — Holly Walker, Kete Books 'Loop Tracks is a remarkable novel, beautifully and sensitively written, which demonstrates how the secrecy of the past may so unfairly encroach on the present.' — Paddy Richardson, Reading Room ' Loop Tracks is an urgent and unexpected novel about freedom and responsibility – about a woman forced to wear her solitary and unsupported choice as a puzzling mistake, and about the very present past that she must face to help her family and herself.' — Elizabeth Knox ' This