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Whiti Hereaka is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter.
Her latest book is Legacy, is a timeslip YA novel about a teenager from 2015 who is hit by a bus and finds himself in WW1, in 1915 serving as his great-great-grandfather in the Māori contingent.
She describes Legacy as an attempt to answer or address the invisibility of Māori in World War One.
