Tanea Heke

The story of Mata, raised by a cruel guardian who keeps her from her family, Makareta, the reluctant princess of her tribe, and Missy, overlooked but in the end the glue that holds them together. Three cousins, once thrown together and as women grown apart, ultimately sharing a connection that can never be broken.

Some fifty years in the future, a mother and daughter are held captive in a refugee compound, their lives in imminent danger.

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...

An old woman in rest home suffering from dementia flashes back to her youth as a policewoman and her relationship with a colleague.