- 1957 first edition, 176 pages
- Published by AH & AW Reed, NZ
- Hardcover with dust jacket, red boards
- Good condition, some age wear, fading to dust jacket and edge of boards, minor tanning
The valley of Kauri Hill, in the Northland of New Zealand, was tapu. Angus Cowan settled there sixty years ago and was killed whilst out riding. His son tried to carry on the farm, but was finally driven away by the curse he had refused to acknowledge. The homestead became known as "Cowan's Folly"; it was rich land, yet nobody cared to take it over.
The years passed and David Grant came to Kauri Hill with Cowan's daughter, Margaret, as his bride. In the enlightened days of the 1950's the tapu was discredited as a silly superstition based on Maori legend. Yet not entirely discredited; there were those who believed in it still - Margared among them.
And in the light of events, it seemed that the fears of those who believed were not without foundation when two deaths and the firing of the pasture brought David and Margaret to near-breaking point.
Then at last the tapu was lifted - in the form of a miracle, according to Margaret. And David, for whom the day of tapus and miracles had long since passed, was gratefully content that she should think it so.
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