Deluge by Sue MacDonald

The house that Cindy’s mother bought with the money from Grandpop’s and Nana’s wills was one of two 1940’s rough-cast duplexes. The dwellings sat overlooking the Waitemata Harbour and a forest of toitoi grasses, then beyond that when the tide went out, a forest of mānawa trees, their sea-soaked trunks glistening with moisture.  When the...