MARY FIELDING AND JANE WESTAWAY

Accusation: A Wife's Story

Random House New Zealand 2008 Paperback, 248pp. "ACCUSATION is Mary Fieldings gripping account of a nightmare that begins one ordinary evening with a knock at her front door. Minutes later, three police officers lead away her husband Steve. Later that night he is charged on two counts of indecency. What is his wife, the mother of his two daughters, to believe? And which is worse: that her husband is guilty as charged, or that an innocent man is subjected to such on-going anguish? After a two-and-a-half year battle which threatens the Fieldings' emotional and economic survival, Steve is spat out of a system that Mary now sees as deeply flawed, and shockingly unjust. Its easy to believe in justice, to trust police to investigate and judges to deliver sound verdicts that is, until someone in your family is arrested, charged and tried. Then that belief can be shattered forever. ACCUSATION is a compelling story told with remarkable courage. ", (ISBN: 9781877361159). Near Mint.

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Book number: 587830

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Keywords: "Crime, NZ, Non-Fiction"9781877361159 9781877361159

MARY FIELDING AND JANE WESTAWAY

Accusation

Random House New Zealand 2008 Paperback, 248pp. "ACCUSATION is Mary Fieldings gripping account of a nightmare that begins one ordinary evening with a knock at her front door. Minutes later, three police officers lead away her husband Steve. Later that night he is charged on two counts of indecency. What is his wife, the mother of his two daughters, to believe? And which is worse: that her husband is guilty as charged, or that an innocent man is subjected to such on-going anguish? After a two-and-a-half year battle which threatens the Fieldings' emotional and economic survival, Steve is spat out of a system that Mary now sees as deeply flawed, and shockingly unjust. Its easy to believe in justice, to trust police to investigate and judges to deliver sound verdicts that is, until someone in your family is arrested, charged and tried. Then that belief can be shattered forever. ACCUSATION is a compelling story told with remarkable courage. ", (ISBN: 9781877361159). Very Good.

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Book number: 462133

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "Biography, Crime, NZ"9781877361159 9781877361159

MARY FIELDING AND JANE WESTAWAY

Accusation

Random House New Zealand 2008 Paperback, 248pp. "ACCUSATION is Mary Fieldings gripping account of a nightmare that begins one ordinary evening with a knock at her front door. Minutes later, three police officers lead away her husband Steve. Later that night he is charged on two counts of indecency. What is his wife, the mother of his two daughters, to believe? And which is worse: that her husband is guilty as charged, or that an innocent man is subjected to such on-going anguish? After a two-and-a-half year battle which threatens the Fieldings' emotional and economic survival, Steve is spat out of a system that Mary now sees as deeply flawed, and shockingly unjust. Its easy to believe in justice, to trust police to investigate and judges to deliver sound verdicts that is, until someone in your family is arrested, charged and tried. Then that belief can be shattered forever. ACCUSATION is a compelling story told with remarkable courage. ", (ISBN: 9781877361159). Good.

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Book number: 517392

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Keywords: "NZ, Non-Fiction"9781877361159 9781877361159

WESTAWAY, JANE AND TESSA COPLAND (EDITORS)

It Looks Better on You. New Zealand Women Writers Talk About Their Friendships

Dunedin, Longacre Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1877135828) French Flaps (Paperback), 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. pp247. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 'The result is a collection of gritty, amusing and touching accounts of the sustaining relationship which Fleur adcock describes as "far more permanent, thank God, than marriage"'. As New.

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Book number: 1003904

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Nonfiction, New Zealand, Women, Writers, Writing, Friendship 1877135828

WESTAWAY, JANE

Love and Other Excuses

Dunedin, Longacre Press. 1999, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 1877135283) Card, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp212. As New.

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Book number: 000438

Catalogue: Fiction & Poetry New Zealand

Keywords: Fiction, New Zealand, 1877135283

JANE WESTAWAY

Love & Other Excuses

Longacre Press 1999 Paperback. "Love. It seems to Zoe that people use that word to excuse the inexcusable. Like her mother. Like her friends.And then she meets Tom. Intense, exciting and scaring her half to death. Love, when it comes, is nothing like what she expected. ", (ISBN: 1877135283). Very Good.

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Book number: 213660

Catalogue: General

Keywords: "Childrens, Fiction"1877135283 1877135283