Henderson's Spear - Softcover

"A powerful evocation of the Pacific world...Enough plot, mystery and diversion for your average Victorian triple-decker." Adam Lively -- Sunday Times

"An intriguing, warm-toned, well-written and spirited novel, a credit to its tradition." John Spurling -- Times Literary Supplement

"An unforgettable novel, meant to be read again and again in disbelief and understanding." Lynne Perri, USA Today -- USA Today

"Perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel is the way it reads as something intimate, notwithstanding the grandeur of its scope." Mary Ambrose -- National Post (Canada)

"Reminiscent of Wright's fellow Canadian Margaret Atwood...Capacious, thoughtful, genuinely gripping." James Bradley -- The Sunday Age (Australia)

Searching the Pacific for her father - a pilot missing since the Korean War - Liv lands in a Tahitian jail, accused of murder. There she unravels the strange story of her relative, Frank Henderson, who came to these waters a century before with Prince George (later George V) and his disturbed brother, Prince Eddy. Frank's diaries show he believed that something he witnessed in the South Seas may have subsequently put his life in danger; now his long-ago revelations lead Liv to understand her father's disappearance and her mother's secrecy about the past.

A moving story of family and state secrets, Henderson's Spear vividly explores the forces of history and the accidents of love.