Just when I thought nobody wrote a book in chronological order any more, along came Sole Survivor. While the blurb on the back kind of paints this as a romance, it is much more of an adventure. Based on a remote part of the New Zealand coastline in 1966, it brings together three quirky characters – Red O'Hara, a damaged veteran haunted by visions of his time on the Burma Railway, Angus McLeod, a retired policeman desperate for a son, and Rosie, an ex-doctor turned market researcher, as they are thrown together in a tough, remote bay. They learn to co-exist and co-operate, bound by a common mission to deter Japanese trawlers from illegal fishing near the shore - and as they did, I became totally drawn along with the story and very attached to the characters... so much so that I have missed them since I finished the book last week.Most of all, the description of each of the three small bachs, set in bush overlooking the ocean and rugged Wreck Bay on the tip of Great Barrier Island, provides plenty of fuel for sea/treechange fantasies.
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