Author(s): Elizabeth Knox

Novel | Aotearoa Fiction | Historical

This is a swift wind-jammer of a novel, and the hurricane in the middle of the voyage is a dark wartime love story. Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Knox's fifth book is a tale of missing persons and mistaken identity, of living memory and its shadow, amnesia. In 1947 Ray Knox is 20, a merchant seaman and a man with a past. Sam Thrift is an ex-US serviceman who has returned to New Zealand in search of a child he thinks must exist. But Sam is having memory problems. He needs a junior detective, someone to take notes. Ray, who wants to be a writer, recognises Sam's search as a mystery - but has no idea how mysterious and dangerous it will turn out to be. The depth and richness of Glamour and the Sea confirm Elizabeth Knox as one of our finest writers.