Delirious, 9781776922086
Paperback
Past losses haunt a couple facing aging and second chances.

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  • Paperback

    312 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2024

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Summary

Delirious: Second Chances and Haunting Memories

Mary, an ex-cop, and Pete, a retired librarian, are moving into a retirement village. They’re not falling apart, but they’re watching each other – Pete with his tachycardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee.

Selling their beloved house should be a clean break, but the people they have lost keep returning. A detective calls with new information about the case of their son, Will, who was killed forty years before. Mary co…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781776922086
ISBN-10:1776922085
Author:Damien Wilkins
Publisher:Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint:Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:312
Release Date:9 October 2024
Weight:978g
Dimensions:33mm x 210mm x 139mm
About The Author

Damien Wilkins

Damien Wilkins is the author of fourteen books, most recently Aspiring, winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award in 2020. His first novel, The Miserables, won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 1994, and he has been long-listed three times for the Dublin Literary Award. He received a Whiting Writers’ Award from the Whiting Foundation, New York, in 1992, and an Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Award in 2013. He is a professor at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters Te Pūtahi Tui Auaha o Te Ao. As a musician and songwriter, he writes and records as the Close Readers.

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