Sophie Gee

The ghost is in purgatory because he's a Catholic ghost.

And yet they're being asked to live in a Protestant world.

You know, love that I've brought this back to the Reformation.

So this is, you know, we haven't really unpacked this fully, but I just want to show the trail of breadcrumbs that Marsh is leaving in this little book where we know that we're in the world of Hamlet.

And yet she's actually kind of transforming it in this very playful, clever way.

Are all coming together.

Okay, we need to talk about Tay Pukihar, who is in many ways the most compelling character in this book.

Okay, so let's back up and explain what the tiki is.

It's explained in the book.

So we see the tiki for the first time at Carolyn's birthday party.

It's given to her as a present.

It's been arranged by Te Poki Haa.

But it's given to her by Roderick Allen.

And take Poki Ha is introduced to us in this scene as a big brown man with a very beautiful voice, a Maori physician who was staying at the Middleton.

So it's a very colonial introduction, although he turns out to be a much more multidimensional character.

This is the description of the tiki.

The tiki is a Maori symbol.

It brings good fortune to its possessor.

It represents a human embryo and is the symbol of fecundity.

In the course of a conversation with Te Pukeha at the hotel, Alan had learned that he had this tiki to dispose of for a pakeha, a white man who was hard up.