Travelling in the Dark : Winner of the Hall and Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize 2019

'The New Zealand landscape is incredibly vivid through Timpany's writing' -NZ News UKDislocated by the breakdown of her marriage, Sarah journeys with her young son from England to her childhood home in New Zealand - to the house that should have been hers.There, she knows she must face a series of fractured relationships - with her sisters and with an old boyfriend who perhaps should have been the one. As the aftermath of a devastating earthquake cause Sarah to make diversions to her route, she is forced he to return to places echoing with painful memories.But dwell as she might on the choices she has made, choices made from duty or fear, she knows she must reach home and face those she left behind.Set in the wild, beautiful and unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand, Emma Timpany's novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past and the family ties that shaped her.