Title: Sidney Bridge upside down
Description: "There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down." A captivating opening line of a gothic novel superficially  about a boy in rural New Zealand in the 1930s.  However the tone and voice of the narrative changes from the original boyish perspective of the narrator,  to something darker - even unhinged. The plot is simple on the surface but its undercurrents disturb.
Subjects: Social realism with a twist.
Places: We are in Hicks Bay, a remote coastal village in New Zealand
Time periods: depression times