Sunday 21 February 2021

Healing the heart of the city: the battle to restore Christchurch's cathedral

While new buildings have sprung up around it, the ruined cathedral has long been a painful reminder of the earthquake

In the months, then years, after the Christchurch earthquake, it was not Sue Spigel’s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.

What worked was her home high on the hillside above Governors Bay, where Spigel, 74, and her husband, Bob, have lived for 20 years. “It was this place … being here, cocooned from the rest of the agony that was going on, that really helped,” she says, sat with her back to a large window framing bush, sky and sea.

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