Launching Cross Creek Return

We launched Cross Creek Return at the library this afternoon. Author Irene Swadling on the right above, and her sister-in-law Heather.

A tragic accident in 1880 on the Rimutaka Incline leaves young George traumatised. His premonition of danger before the event is parallelled by events experienced by his grandfather, an emigrant to Nelson in 1842. the growth of the Colony of Nelson and the 77 years of the Rimutaka Incline Railway, with its Fell engines, set the background of this novel.