Relief
From a young girl's improper visit to an adult neighbour to a family's relief at the lifting of sex abuse charges, from a fasting Christmas Dinner guest to a messy stumble with an urn of ashes, these stories effortlessly mix the menacing and the comic, and handle real-life situat... read full description below.
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
221 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 140mm
Height: 210mm
Spine: 20mm |
| Weight |
280g |
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| Dewey Code |
823.3 |
| Catalogue Code |
84854 |
Description of this Book
From a young girl's improper visit to an adult neighbour to a family's relief at the lifting of sex abuse charges, from a fasting Christmas Dinner guest to a messy stumble with an urn of ashes, these stories effortlessly mix the menacing and the comic, and handle real-life situations with warmth and subtlety. Relief introduces an astonishingly mature and confident new voice in New Zealand fiction.
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Awards & Reviews
| Awards |
Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2010.
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Author's Bio
Anna Taylor was born in 1982. She completed the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2006, and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript she wrote during that year. She lives in Wellington. This is her first book
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