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We Can Make A Life

Chessie Henry

4.59/5 (788 ratings)

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Hours after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history.

Chessie rebuilds her family’s lives on the page, from her parents’ honeymoon across Africa, to living in Tokelau as one of five children under ten before returning to New Zealand, where her mother would set her heart and home in the Clarence Valley only to see it devastated in the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, and the family displaced.

Written with the same love and compassion that defines her family’s courage and strength, We Can Make a Life is an extraordinary memoir about the psychological cost of heroism, home and belonging, and how a family made a life together.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 253 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Victoria University Press

Edition:: None

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1776561945

ISBN13:: 9781776561940

kindle Asin:: B07P9BLGQ5

We Can Make A Life

Chessie Henry

4.59/5 (788 ratings)

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Hours after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable family history.

Chessie rebuilds her family’s lives on the page, from her parents’ honeymoon across Africa, to living in Tokelau as one of five children under ten before returning to New Zealand, where her mother would set her heart and home in the Clarence Valley only to see it devastated in the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, and the family displaced.

Written with the same love and compassion that defines her family’s courage and strength, We Can Make a Life is an extraordinary memoir about the psychological cost of heroism, home and belonging, and how a family made a life together.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 253 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Victoria University Press

Edition:: None

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1776561945

ISBN13:: 9781776561940

kindle Asin:: B07P9BLGQ5

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