When novelist Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowship from the British Academy and Carnegie Foundation in 2009 she returned to New Zealand to spend the winter in Wellington, near the childhood home of Katherine Mansfield, the writer to whom she'd always felt most connected. In this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging - and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.
