The Godwits Fly

Robin Hyde's wistful and engaging novel, first published in 1938, has now become a New Zealand classic. Strongly autobiographical, it vividly conveys the intensely felt worlds of the adolescent — love, poetry and England — and the enthralling but sometimes painful experience of growing up female; and its picture of family life in early-twentieth-century Wellington, in all its physical details, emotional tensions, muddle and variety, lingers in the mind.

• Author
• Robin Hyde, Ann Thwaite

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 373

• Publisher
• Persephone Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781910263075

• Genres
• classics, australia, fiction

• Release date
• 2016