The Journey Home/The Return Home/ Te Haerenga Kainga

Cowrie wins a scholarship and moves to San Francisco. But the world there is very different from her island home. Perched in the borrowed apartment of a lesbian filmmaker just near a freeway, Cowrie explores this familiar world with fresh eyes.

Upstairs are the SMers, among her students are women who teach her a thing or two. And Cowrie, inevitably, falls in love - with food, with her new life, and with Peta.

But there is a price to pay for exile, even when it's voluntary.

Cathie Dunsford's new novel Manawa Toa: Heart Warrior continues the story of Cowrie.

Map of Cowrie's Pacific. (This is a large file, and may take some time to download)

Cathie Dunsford is a writer, teacher and publishing consultant. A previous novel, Cowrie and The Journey Home have been translated into German by Rogner & Bernhard in a joint volume under the title Kia Kaha Cowrie. She is also the editor of numerous anthologies including Subversive Acts (Penguin), Me and Marilyn Monroe (Daphne Brasell) and Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love (Spinifex).

Journey Home Turkey

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