Auckland, 1883. Emily Keeling, 15 years old, meets
19-year-old Edward Fuller. An intense romance blooms
– and ends in tragedy.

Part historical reimagining, part ghost story, We Know Not When follows a young life full of promise, then takes the reader into a strange realm after Emily Keeling’s death when she finds herself stranded at Symonds Street Cemetery, trapped between this world and the next. Will Emily ever find her way to the other side? And how will her mother and others left behind make sense of this painful and unexpected brutality? Worlds shattered and survival uncertain: here we have a work of fiction inspired by real historical events that explores the lasting impact of male violence.