Kehua

A kehua is a Maori ghost - the wandering dead searching for their ancestral home. Without the proper rituals to send them on their way, they are forced to remain on earth to haunt their relatives. They're not dangerous, and they even try to help the living, though it's wise not to listen to them. They tend to get things wrong... In Fay Weldon's new novel - a tale of murder, sex, redemption, remorse and ghosts - a young woman flees New Zealand in the wake of murder and suicide, hoping to escape the past and find a new life. But the unshriven spirits of the recently departed can't rest peacefully and are forced to emigrate with her - to Highgate.