Summary
Based on the author’s own experiences, this vivid novel explores how - as the Van Morrison song suggests - crazy love can take away the troubles. It can, though, add a whole lot more.
‘We save each other, don’t we, when we are in love.’
It has been 28 years since Vicki last sent a letter to Robert Muldoon. Last time she wrote, he was Prime Minister, while she was living with her loser-boyfriend and wanting to know why people like her had to exist in such dire straits. Back the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143776284 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143776282 |
| Author: | Rosetta Allan |
| Publisher: | Penguin NZ |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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About The Author
Rosetta Allan
Rosetta Allan is a writer of prose and poetry. Her work is widely anthologised, and she has published two volumes of poetry, Little Rock (2007) and Over Lunch (2010). Her first novel, Purgatory, was published by Penguin in 2014 and was selected by Apple Books as one of the best reads of that year. Rosetta has received the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, the Metonymy Best Poem Award, a South Pacific Pictures Emerging Writers’ Lab internship, a Sir James Wallace Master of Creative Writing Scholarship, and a Michael King Writers Centre Emerging Writers Residency, and was the 2019 University of Waikato & Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence. In 2016, she was the first New Zealander to take up the St Petersburg Art Residency, located within the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Russia where she spent time researching her second novel The Unreliable People.
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