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1920, deep in the New Zealand bush, a settlement of Christian fundamentalists live a life of austerity and isolation. It is a place where there is little space for compassion, particularly for the women who can never rid themselves of Eve's original sin. The elders rule over the women, children and young men, meting out punishments for transgressions as ordinary as self-reflection. Sisters Juno and Hannah have grown up in the community, but wh...

Josie and Eliza witness an event that changes their lives forever.

The experience of growing up in a poverty-stricken, working-class neighborhood in New Zealand begins this insightful memoir of one woman's life as she struggles to maintain dignity and develop her voice as a writer. A few months spent in an old kauri villa during childhood provide an opportunity for reading books by candlelight and listening to the call of the moreporks. A father whose leftist sensibilities offer a vision of a better world is ...

The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life and times of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing that she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the ...

This novel follows the narrator, a film-maker, through the process of writing a script. With a central motif being the story of Helen of Troy and the Trojan war, the lives of the characters (in the novel and the film script) take on new meanings. The novel is set in Auckland, New Zealand and attempts to deconstruct the notion that warfare between male heroes provides the only genuine topic of epic literature.

How do you decide how to live? Or do others make that decision for you? In this lyrical novel, award-wining author Beryl Fletcher explores the pardoxes of modern life. As a new academic, Julia finds her feminist beliefs challenged by her students, reinforced by her friend's mistreatment and dismissed by her family. Just as her mother sought freedom from her family's rural poverty, Julia searches for her own solace, finding it in different and ...