Talking About O'Dwyer

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What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldierx2019;s family place a curse on Ox2019;Dwyer, the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend the funeral of their colleague Ox2019;Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on Ox2019;Dwyer during the war and, in the days that follow, he continues the tales of Ox2019;Dwyer and his x2018;cursedx2019; life. Slowly the stories of Newall, another New Zealander in self-enforced exile, and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Steadx2019;s complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.From the Trade Paperback edition.