Sewing Moonlight
It’s winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falters Mill.
Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves. Though he is regarded with suspicion by many in the local community, he soon attracts a small number of friends, each outsiders in their own way.
With a little help from the ecological theories of Steiner and the poetic inspiration of Goethe, Wilhelm survives, at times even flourishes, in a country rocked by the effects of war the the Depression.
However, it is the arrival of a new war – coupled with the sometimes brutal climate of Central Otago – that threatens to destroy the utopia he has created.
Sewing Moonlight is a tragic tale of love, loss and biodynamics in a challenging time.
More than this, it is a story of one man’s journey from alienation to acceptance. Like the moon, which looms large over everything, each ending is also a new beginning.
Out in April. Published by Bateman Books.
