Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts.
'Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents--Lyndahl Chapple
Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on
with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man.
'Blind Road' is Gee's story up to the age of eighteen, when his
apprenticeship as a writer began. 'Running on the Stairs' tells the
story of Margaretha Garden, beginning in 1940, the year of her birth,
when she travelled with her mother Greta from Nazi-sympathising Sweden
to New Zealand, through to her meeting Maurice Gee when they were
working together in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1967.