Night, Ma
$31.20
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2026
Summary
For three and a half years, calamities hit Elizabeth Knox and family in rapid succession. Her sister suffered a psychotic break and was hospitalised against her will, her husband’s brother died by violence, and her mother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
In time, she was able to write about it.
Night, Ma is a book about the net of family which people are held by, but also slip through. About the actual daily work of love; the physical and cognitive work love …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776923083 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776923081 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Knox |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 138mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
‘Absolutely brilliant. This radiant, radically honest memoir pullsthe pin on a sequence of domestic grenades, from the perils ofsemi-feral childhood to a cruelly compacted series of family crisesthat, like shock waves, sweep all before. Armed with inimitable wit, theconsolation of cats and a forensic gaze that spares no one, least ofall herself, Knox interrogates the act of caring; the ties that burn andbind, that we somehow survive.’ —Diana Wichtel
‘An unforgettable record of love and pain, as wide and deep as theocean and as mighty. There is such life in this, such wit and goodness.Telling the truth of how we are, all of us, trembling on the edge of agreat and terrible mystery.’ —Noelle McCarthyAbout The Author
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox is the bestselling author of fourteen novels, most recently the young adult novel Kings of this World, three autobiographical novellas, and a collection of personal essays, The Love School. Her best-known books are The Vintner’s Luck; YA novels Dreamhunter, Dreamquake, and Mortal Fire; and The Absolute Book. Elizabeth was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in 2020.
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