<p><em>She&rsquo;s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional. But Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores the past by pushing her fingers firmly into her ears. </em></p><p><em>Who is her mother and why did she abandon her? What became of her grandmother who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And who was the man she lived with in such an unorthodox way? </em></p><p><em>And what should Kate do about her own two-pointed love triangle? </em></p><p><em>Somewhere out there are the answers; out where only her motorbike can take her. </em></p><p><em>THE STRENGTH OF EGGSHELLS is an emotional journey that explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach.</em></p>