Book Review: Barbara Sumner's "Tree of Strangers"
By Gregor Thompson I bumped into a childhood friend recently in a bar in Auckland. Ordinarily, I live in Wellington but I was on my way to Paris to start a new life. The recent surge in Covid-19 cases in continental Europe has necessarily put that plan on the backburner. Lily told me that her mother had written a book and that I ‘ought to read it. Not knowing what to expect, I came out the other side with an internal obligation to share what I had read. Having previously worked as a journalist, amongst other things Barbara Sumner is an award-winning documentary producer. Sumner is a