An interview with CroatiaWeek
I spoke to CroatiaWeek about my travels through Croatia, my relationship with the Croatian diaspora, and how the country inspired me to write The Telling Time.
New Zealand author Pip McKay has penned a novel inspired by events in her own life and a long-held fascination with Croatia and its diaspora to both Australia and New Zealand.
This captivating debut novel examines the impact of family secrets while entwining the Croatian immigrant experience with New Zealand and Australia’s much-loved coming of age backpacking ‘Overseas Experience’.
It follows two young women who must fight to overcome adversity while transporting the reader from 1950’s Yugoslavia, to New Zealand, and then back to Europe in the late 1980s. Pip also touches on the sad reality of assault for many women and draws on life experience during her own backpacking rite of passage.
