Books by Patricia Grace

Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes b...y. Moving from the forties to the present, from the country to the protests of the cities, Cousins is the story of these three cousins. Thrown together as children, they have subsequently grown apart, yet they share a connection that can never be broken. A stunning novel about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to survive, about the place of women in a shifting world. '. . . it is robust and powerful. I simply could not put it down. Lyrical and vibrant, smoothly paced and quietly rhythmic, Grace's language moves easily from one person to the next, as the stories unfold.' - Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, NZ Listener 'Cousins is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long after it has finished.' - Dominion Sunday Times 'Patricia Grace writes with an enviable clarity and power.' - Evening Post Cousins has been adapted for the screen, the film produced by Miss Conception Films and Whenua Films, directed by Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith, screenplay by Briar Grace-Smith and Patricia Grace.
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Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award. This compelling novel highlights one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.

A novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world.

A bilingual Maori and English edition of Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's award-winning picture book. Who's the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren . . . Tera tetahi kuia ko tana mahi he raranga whariki raranga kete hoki. I te koko o... tona kihini e noho ana he pungawerewere ko tana mahi he hanga whare tukutuku. Since its publication in 1981, Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's award-winning story about two old friends bickering over whose weaving is best has become a New Zealand classic.
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A bilingual Maori/English edition of Patricia Grace and Robin Kahukiwa's classic story of an eel who brings children together to celebrate their diverse cultures, translated into te reo by Hirini Melbourne. He aha nga koha whakahirahira a te tuna korokoro huna kura ma nga tamarik...i o te Tiriti o Toa? What special gifts does the magical Tuna bring to the children of Cannon's Creek? Kei roto i nga watakirihi o te mianga o Te Awa Iti e noho ana he tena korokoro huna kura. I tetahi rangi ka koromiko a Tuna i tona whiore ka kowhiti mai waho i te mianga o Te Awa Iti . . . Since its publication in 1984, Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's story about a magical eel that presents cultural treasures to a group of Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha children, who then use their gifts to enrich their neighbourhood, is a firm favourite.
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