| SAIL THEATRE, SAIL! Written and illustrated by Leo Cappèl.
A group of people from diverse backgrounds share a common dream: to build their own yachts and sail around the Pacific. When one of the group, a professional actress, lands the leading role in a major stage production, the others become involved in various ways.
Now they face a dilemma - how do they reconcile the emotional pull of the stage with their desire to go sailing?
This is a light-hearted tale of how they use their collective talents to overcome their individual fears and weaknesses, and realise their ambition through friendship, inventiveness, courage and determination.
Location: Auckland and Hauraki Gulf.
Published by Horizon Press, Wellington. 246 pages, $35.--
CLONE By Leo Cappèl.
Imagine a new virus: PIV - Parthenogenesis Inducing Virus. PIV causes young women to become pregnant spontaneously, even if still virgins, and without a man.
(Characteristic of parthenogenesis is that the offspring is always identical to the mother. Always daughters, never sons. The virus is theoretically possible, there is even an existing bacterium that has the same effect on some insects!)
Linda gets pregnant while her husband is away on a refresher course. After their daughter Jenny is born they hope to avoid further pregnancies by living apart. Brian attempts to bring up his daughter on his own, but with Linda's support.
Society changes, many women seek solace in the newly formed "Church of the Blessed Virgin Mothers", others try and continue the old ways.
The second part of the novel is largely in the form of Jenny's dairy . Fewer and fewer boys get born, but in spite of that Jenny grows up in a reasonably happy and positive way.
In the third part Jenny starts her career as tourist bus driver. As she and the tourist guide Martha return the empty bus to the depot they get trapped by a flood in the Waihi Gorge. While they are waiting for the river to go down, Martha discovers she is pregnant. Now, sitting in isolation in their bus, they have to reach a satisfactory solution to their problem.
Location: mainly Whangarei.
Published by Tightwriters, Auckland. 242 pages, $30.--
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