<P> George Turner is a popular columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper , writing a weekly column which he insists must be exactly 800 words . After his wife dies , he buys - over the internet and unseen - a house in a ( fictional ) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld , where his parents took him on holiday as a child . He then has to break the news to his two teenage children , Shay and Arlo . But the colourful and inquisitive locals in Weld ensure Turner 's dream of a fresh start does not go exactly to plan . </P>
<P> George Turner is a popular columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper , writing a weekly column which he insists must be exactly 800 words . After his wife dies , he buys - over the internet and unseen - a house in a ( fictional ) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld , where his parents took him on holiday as a child . He then has to break the news to his two teenage children , Shay and Arlo . But the colourful and inquisitive locals in Weld ensure Turner 's dream of a fresh start does not go exactly to plan . </P>
where is 800 words set in new zealand
where is 800 words set in new zealand
a ( fictional ) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld
a ( fictional ) small New Zealand seaside town called Weld