Kirsty Powell grew up in the North Wairarapa in an isolated rural
community east of Eketahuna. She now lives in rural South Auckland
and splits her time between farming, writing and contracting as an
Occupational Health Physiotherapist to local industries. She has
also studied psychology, history, philosophy and completed a Master
of Creative Writing. She has traveled by motorbike on several
continents and by bicycle across Europe.
The Strength of Eggshells combines many of her loves. She
particularly enjoyed researching the history of the returned
soldier settlement blocks in the Mangapurua Valley and meeting the
descendants and one of the original settlers who is now in her
nineties and appears in the novel as herself - a teenage girl in
the 1940’s.
“ The powerful tug of history, the search for identity, an unresolved present, dark ghosts in the past… This is a marvelous New Zealand novel." - Tina Shaw
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