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  • Published: 1 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780143019411
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $30.00

In My Father's Den





A young woman is murdered and family secrets that have lain hidden for 17 years are about to be uncovered... the novel that inspired an international feature film starring Matthew Macfayden, Miranda Otto and Emily Barclay.

When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer.
Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past – which proves as secret as his father's den in the old poison shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before a family has been split apart and old wounds revealed.

In My Father's Den is Maurice Gee's third novel and was first published in 1972. It is now an international feature film of the same name. In My Father's Den is directed by Brad McGann and Produced by Trevor Haysom and Dixie Linder, and stars Matthew Macfayden, Miranda Otto and Emily Barclay.

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  • Published: 1 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780143019411
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Maurice Gee

Maurice Gee (1931-2025) has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults, young adults and children, and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. Maurice is survived by his wife Margareta, two daughters and a son.

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