Access Road

Maurice Gee

Aug 2012 · Bolinda · Narrated by Heather Bolton

About this audiobook

As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley - violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old man - returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out ... Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.

About the author

Maurice Gee is a distinguished fiction writer. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for his adult fiction and also for his young adult and children's books. Maurice Gee was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists in 2003. His short stories and novels are well-known for their real or imaginatively reworked local settings, dysfunctional families and sketches of violence. Gee's numerous publications, and his wide readership, have contributed to his status as one of New Zealand's most significant writers.

Heather Bolton is a Melbourne-based actor who has extensive stage and screen experience. After winning a GOFTA for her role as Meg in Gaylene Preston’s 1985 debut feature Mr Wrong, she went on to feature in television series Blue Heelers, Stingers, Rush and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and films Illustrious Energy, Rainbow’s End and The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Heather also writes and performs in plays for Melbourne’s Ranters Theatre.