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Peter Cotterill doesn’t want to keep a diary. But his great aunt has sent him one for his 13th birthday and his mum is going to check on whther he’s keeping it. So he begins to write about the year that is unfolding- school, his paper-round, Scouts- as well as they lasting effect that World War 2 have on his friends and fmaily. , Little does he know that soemthing is happening high on a mountain that is going to have a huge impact on his life. Fifty years after a train plunded into the Whangaehu river at Tangiwai on Christmas Eve this is a timely telling of a stroy that is a signficant part of New Zealand’s history.