Ellie is fourteen and living with her mother at the Woburn hostels in
Lower Hutt when the novel opens. There is much she doesn't understand -
about men and love and sex, especially. She begins her journey into
adulthood alert to its disappointments but also finding talents and
passions - and enough love - to sustain and enrich her in unexpected
ways. As the story progresses Ellie comes to understand and eventually
make peace with her shadow man. Ellie and the Shadow Man moves between
the worlds of adolescence and adulthood, between art and domesticity,
suburban Wellington and rural Nelson
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