Challenging Fates
Journal: Tuwhera (Auckland University of Technology)
Year: 2012

Challenging Fates is a novel set at the time of the First World War which proposes an alternative history of the period. It approaches this in two ways. The chronology begins with the actual events of the outbreak of World War I, but proceeds to construct an alternative meta-narrative, seeking to create a seamless division between reality and fiction. This becomes the background against which the lives of members of four families from England, France, Germany and Russia are played out. Thus a se