The People-faces - Lisa Cherrington

Who is caught in the middle when Western and Māori forms of knowledge about the mind collide?

Twenty-something Nikki's city life has just reached a crisis point. Her brother, Joshua, is in a psychiatric hospital again. He has been alternately beguiled, troubled and tormented since childhood by visions of people-faces, visions that are entwined with the ancestral homelands of Northland and the dolphins that swim in the surrounding seas.

Together Nikki and Joshua must travel home to confront the people-faces. Their journey takes them back to their childhood, and straight to their family's heart.

In this sensitive, insightful and eerily atmospheric novel, Lisa Cherrington takes her professional knowledge, combines it with storytelling flair, and explores the difficult and complex life of a family affected by mental illness.

Huia Publishers, 2004. Paperback, 294 pages. 

Condition: secondhand paperback in fair condition.