Te Noninga Kumu Motueka Public Library, 32 Wallace Street, Motueka 7120
Honest, fierce and deeply moving, Kiri Allan’s memoir asks what it costs to keep going when you can’t live in half measures, and what it takes to rebuild your life after a series of poor choices. Kiri will kōrero with Kerensa Johnston about finding her way back to Te Ao Marama. Kiri Allan’s memoir is the story of the person beyond the headlines, from church-going child to charismatic hitchhiker to precocious law student to former politician. Events a government might encounter once in a generation stacked up: a terrorist attack, a volcanic eruption, destructive and deadly weather events, a global pandemic . . . Kiri Allan’s six-year political career spanned some of the most challenging times in recent history. As a highly recognisable figure, her overlapping personal story also played out under scrutiny: divorce, new parenthood, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and mental health struggles culminating in the car crash that led to her resignation. Honest, fierce and deeply moving, Kiri’s memoir asks what it costs to keep going when you can’t live in half measures, and what it takes to rebuild your life.
