This collects the three novels Plumb, Meg and Sole
Survivor to set up a family saga unrivalled by anything in New Zealand
literature. In Plumb, Gee introduces us to the intolerant, irascible
clergyman George Plumb. It won the New Zealand Fiction Award and the
Wattie Book of the Year Award. Meg continues the family story with
George Plumb's daughter, articulating her personal battles against a
backdrop of family traumas and world wars. Sole Survivor focuses on the
career of Duggie Plum, Plumb's grandson, as seen through the eyes of his
cousin Raymond Sole, who sharpens the story of his own doomed marriage
against that of his relationship to Duggie.
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