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Hibiscus Coast

Emma Taupere has just returned to New Zealand from Shanghai, where her training as a painter has made her a copyist of incredible skill.

Siaki, her ambitious and manipulative ex-boyfriend, has recruited her as a forger, shutting Emma away in a borrowed apartment on Princes Wharf. In a room housing the owner’s prize possession — a lost painting by Gauguin — Emma works day and night copying one of the most valuable Goldies in the Auckland Museum.

Lost in memories of the two men who shaped her life in Shanghai — her Chinese painting teacher, and the charismatic New Zealander with whom she had a passionate affair — Emma finds herself increasingly exposed to danger. And when talent, hubris and greed collide with disastrous consequences, Emma has no choice but to try to flee up the Hibiscus Coast...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-301976-3
  • EAN
  • 9780143019763
  • Release date
  • 2006