Best-selling author Dominic Hoey’s much anticipated third novel.

Its 1985 and Obis on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dads delusional, his mums real sick, theRainbow Warriorjust exploded, and its time for Obi to grow up and get out of the spacies parlour.

When he and his best mate Al discover a map leading to unknown riches, Obi wonders if this windfall could be the thing that turns his familys fortunes around. Instead, hes thrown into an adventure where the stakes are a lot higher than the games he loves.

An electric novel about life in a multi-cultural, counter-cultural part of Auckland pre-gentrification.1985is an adventure story with a local flavour, a coming-of-age story for the underdogs, the disenfranchised and the dreamers.

Best-selling author Dominic Hoey’s much anticipated third novel.

Its 1985 and Obis on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dads delusional, his mums real sick, theRainbow Warriorjust exploded, and its time for Obi to grow up and get out of the spacies parlour.

When he and his best mate Al discover a map leading to unknown riches, Obi wonders if this windfall could be the thing that turns his familys fortunes around. Instead, hes thrown into an adventure where the stakes are a lot higher than the games he loves.

An electric novel about life in a multi-cultural, counter-cultural part of Auckland pre-gentrification.1985is an adventure story with a local flavour, a coming-of-age story for the underdogs, the disenfranchised and the dreamers.