Book Launch: My Three Rivers By Shirley Bagnall Metcalfe

My Three Rivers is a vivid account of rural life in the first part of 20th-century New Zealand on land defined by unpredictable rivers and few reliable roads.
With a sharp and humorous eye, Shirley Bagnall Metcalfe captures the communities beside the Waihou, the Kōpuapounamu and the Waikato rivers.
Carterton’s Andrew Wright is proud to launch this memoir written by his grandmother in Warwick Jotters and published by The Cuba Press.

“I love rivers. From childhood to old age, I have lived on their banks. I have watched the ebb and flow of the tidal Waihou; the swift turbulent rush of the mountain torrents on the Gisborne East Coast; and the sturdy glide of the lordly Waikato, chief of the North Island rivers. They have exercised over me a fascination by their beauty and usefulness, as well as a feeling of distrust in their waywardness, in their scorn of man’s attempt to rule them.”

Refreshments will be served.