Exploring what it means to “come home”, the importance of memories. and the question of belonging, including discovering one’s own way of becoming a Pākehā as a newly migrated New Zealand woman.From Error to Error is a literary and psychological part-memoir. It follows a young woman on her journey of errors, as she leaves her troubled tribe of Eastern European heritage and sets about finding a new one, leaving her country and her past behind.Familiar and collaborating yet not driven by confession-mindedness or self-justification.

The story explores female and male relationships at cultural intersections previously unimaginable to the protagonist. It opens an intimate window to one difficult father-daughter relationship. It is a love story and a story of friendships, their value, and their cost. A discourse on a life lived on the edge of reason, undistorted by idealised or catastrophised memories. Deeply disinterested in moral judgments or decorative literary flourishes, it tells how, From Error to Error, one discovers the entire truth.

In this outstanding work of contemporary literature, Killeen explores the human heart through vignettes of experience, separate in space and time. Engrossing tale, which explores brittle, painful, beautiful shards of love, flying through time and place. Romance, friendship, daughterhood, motherhood: an often dramatic and always brilliant exploration of love across space and time. Killeen examines the drama of her own life, and love in its permutations. If at times the personal dynamics are brutal, this is a master writer at work: stirring, authentic and uplifting. J. Nicholls.