Pearly Gates

Funny intriguing lyrical insightful and ultimately moving this entertaining novel from one of this country's best writers both skewers and celebrates small town New Zealand.Pat Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting injuries. He runs a successful real-estate agency in a provincial South Island town of which he is a second-term mayor. Popular happily married well established he cuts an impressive figure especially in his own eyes. But will his pride and complacency come before a fall? And if so how will that come about