A Can of Sunshine by Christine Leunens

Nancy has gone from NY to NZ and lives a peaceful life with her Kiwi husband, Mike, and their seven-year-old daughter, Chloe – until a holiday escape to Fiji takes an unexpected turn. 

Over the next decade she will have to deal with both the fall-out and her idiosyncratic mother-in-law, Edith. 

Against a backdrop of time passing, life serves up light and darkness, tears, joy and illumination when the three generations of women least expect it.

The third novel by award-winning author.

Victoria University of Wellington Doctoral Scholarship funded

The New Zealand Herald included A Can of Sunshine among the 25 best books published in English worldwide in 2013, and one of only three written by New Zealanders