Reveille

About the Book

When a camping trip goes terribly wrong, young Joey Winter finds himself seriously injured, abandoned by his mother and her friend, and in the care of dangerous strangers. As he recovers, he learns he’s in even more danger than he ever imagined, and still his mother has not come to get him so, when the opportunity arises to escape, Joey takes it. With three companions, one the woman who’d tried to kill him already and no doubt would try again, Joey is determined to survive and to go home.

About the Author

Renée Hapimarika van de Weert is the author of New Zealand Post 2002 short-listed children’s books “The Last Whale” and the Maori version “Te Tohora Whakamutanga”. She has worked as a lab technician, kitchen hand, sheep and beef farmer, veterinary assistant, budget advisor, adult literacy tutor, creative writing tutor, agricultural journalist and columnist, parliamentary electorate agent. She was always willing to turn her hand to every work/life experience that came her way and loved every one of them, not least, she says, because it was all fuel for her writerly fires. Wife of one, mother of two, grandmother of three, reader, writer and political nerd, she has retired to the beach to write full time. The seeds of ‘Reveille’ were planted way back in 1982 and ‘Book 1 - Resistance’ is the first fruit.