Sprigs

Good secondhand condition.

It is Saturday afternoon and two boys? schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya ? a fifteen year old who barely belongs ? watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do.

In the weeks after 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons.

Shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021.