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If 'mother won't come to us', New Zealanders must go to mother . . . Here an expat poet finds herself in alien yet strangely familiar territory, a place her ancestors 'got off'. What must she do to survive? Score herself a bedsit, work in a pub, hunt up an office job – and keep an eye out. Set on the cusp of the 1970s–80s, Janet Charman's compelling new book centres on the disorienting experiences of a young woman newly arrived in London – squalid flats, temp work, ancestral visits and trips to the Continent. Charman has a laser-sharp eye for unsettling social cues, her outsider's vision of the city persistently challenged by encounters with an array of its remarkable inhabitants – the distant relatives who stayed at home; her welfare 'clients' and their social workers; and her fellow antipodean travellers. And all contact in the new old land is marked by the claims and memories of that other white coast: Aotearoa. Charman's account of the OE experience...