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800 Words 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.[4]