While I Can Still Remember: Norfolk Island

While I Can Still Remember is the story of Norfolk Island. This work of historical fiction begins with a prologue that introduces a monolithic Norfolk Island pine at its ‘birth’ as a seed over 650 years ago. The story then takes us to the present where the old tree – Lone Pine – has always stood on a limestone cliff at Point Hunter on Norfolk Island. At the base of its trunk a sapling – Piali – clings to the cliff.

The island is waiting for Piali to grow strong enough to take over from Lone...