Oh, the wizardry of history. All the people who have lived and died, the people whose stories have survived.

You see Sophie, it is the story of the people who worked and lived, not the house that matters. The history of a house is the history of the people who have lived in it.

In stories, you can find out all sorts of things. Did you know that in 1769 the English navigator Captain James Cook sighted Aotearoa (New Zealand)? He landed at Poverty Bay two days later.

Everyone who had set foot in its doors, including Frida, had left a mark, an imprint, in its old walls.