In a novel approach to creating fiction, seven Whangarei writers have pooled their talents and styles to co-write a book.
Members of Whangarei's Pen-Ultimate Writers Group have co-written Emory, a collection of stories set in the 1980s and exploring the lives of residents of Oak Tree Lane.
The compilation of their own book was a much different exercise to the critiquing of their work the group usually does when meeting.
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The writers researched 1980s New Zealand to ensure their stories captured the attitudes and the essence of the times.