BOOK LAUNCH FUNDRAISER
Carole Brungar.
Rural Women New Zealand, Martinborough Branch is hosting a fundraising event for Wharekaka Projects.
Award-winning New Zealand author, Carole Brungar will be guest speaker at an afternoon tea to be held in Martinborough on August 27th. The author will be speaking about her latest novel, The Nam Legacy and signing copies. Set in New Zealand and Vietnam, The Nam Legacy is an epic love story set during the 60’s and 70’s.
After eighteen months in Vietnam, New Zealand soldier Jack Coles thought killing others to stay alive would be the hardest thing he would ever have to live with. He was wrong. Although the nightmare of what he saw and did haunt him constantly, what tortures him the most, is what he has left behind.
Brungar says the more she researched New Zealand’s involvement in the war, the more she felt the veterans had been dealt an injustice and she decided to write about it. The Nam Legacy is Brungar’s second novel and won the international competition, The Hooker Prize for best opening chapter. Her first novel, A tide too high, won two awards, Best First Book and Best Novel with Romantic Elements.
The novel has featured in the Top 10 New Zealand Adult Fiction for six weeks.
The event is being organised by Rural Women New Zealand, Martinborough Branch at First Church Hall Weld Street at 2pm on August 27th as a fundraiser for Wharekaka Projects.
Tickets cost $20 and will be available shortly from Wharekaka, Kitcheners Dairy, The Hive and Rural Women branch members.
Books will be available for purchase.
Rural Women New Zealand is charitable, membership-based organisation which supports people in rural communities through learning opportunities, advocacy & connections. If you would like to join Rural Women New Zealand or find out more about the organisation – please contact Carolyn Nichol at carolyn.m.nicol@gmail.com or view the website at www.ruralwomen.org.nz and facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RWNZLowerNorthIsland/
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