Briar Grace Smith

A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Maori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.

Entwines the very different lives of three Maori girls, cousins, through tumultuous decades, after one of them is taken from her family and raised in an orphanage.

A powerful, challenging story surrounding the tangi (funeral) of a small Waru boy who dies at the hands of his caregiver and how his death impacts the community.