Landfall

About the Book

An unexpected letter from Tokyo impels a Canadian accountant to break his resolution never to revisit the past. Hunting out an old journal, he relives his adventures on the far side of the Pacific, when he sought redemption for his sins among primitive but contented islanders. There he aided Japanese veterans in their search for a World War 2 flying boat, put an elderly English spinster in touch with her half-caste nephew and helped a tribe to preserve its age-old customs. Only now, ten years later, does he learn that, in the process, he may have forfeited the greatest opportunity of his life. In Landfall, his fourth novel, Peter Moss explores the myriad miscommunications, misunderstandings and mysteries of the human heart.

About the Author

Author of more than a dozen published works, Peter Moss witnessed the end of Empire in India (1947), Malaya (1957) and Hong Kong (1997), where he has spent the last forty years. Sojourns among the land divers of Pentecost and the cargo cultists of Tanna inspired Landfall, his fourth novel.