When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer.

Celia’s death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past

which proves as secret as his father’s den in the old poison shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before a family has been split apart and old wounds revealed.
In My Father’s Den is Maurice Gee’s third novel and was first published in 1972. It is now an international feature film of the same name. In My Father’s Den is directed by Brad McGann and Produced by Trevor Haysom and Dixie Linder, and stars Matthew Macfayden, Miranda Otto and Emily Barclay.
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