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It looks better on you
Longacre Press 2003 Paperback, 258pp. When editors Tessa Copland and Jane Westaway called on NZ writers to pay tribute to women's friendships, they knew from the start what they didn't want. 'Not sentiment. Not sociology. Not celebrity chat. We looked for true stories from writers willing to go public on an intimate aspect of their lives.' The result is a gritty and touching look at the durable, flexible and sustaining relationship which Fleur Adcock depicts as 'far more permanent, thank God, than marriage'. Describing the sea is probably simpler than cataloguing the breadth and depth of women's friendships. But these stories and poems splash through the shallows of primary school, navigate the shoals of adolescence and the swift currents of early marriage and motherhood, then strike out for the depths of mid-life and later. Linley Boniface launches in first with a harrowing account of fire at sea and her subsequent rescue from nightmares. Linda Burgess describes a fortysomething girls-only garden-visiting weekend where love, 'the real thing', is chewed over; Jenny Robin Jones steers through a turbulent triangle; Kate De Goldi praises sisterhood, Dame Fiona Kidman recalls her thirty-year friendship with the late Lauris Edmond; Paula Boock and Lynne Cardy give two versions of their 'Starsky and Hutch' era; Marilyn Duckworth wistfully recalls a friendship capsized by mental illness. (ISBN: 9781877135828). Very Good.
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NZD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 US$ 10.99 | £UK 8.25 | JP¥ 1567]
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Keywords: Biography, NZ9781877135828 9781877135828
Good at Geography
Penguin Books (NZ) 2000 Paperback, 286pp. Jane Westaway. (ISBN: 9780140291421). Very Good.
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NZD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 US$ 10.4 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1482]
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Keywords: Fiction, NZ9780140291421 9780140291421
Love and Other Excuses
Longacre Press 1999 Paperback, 212pp. I knew at that moment that Tom Brannigan would stay a secret. That there were only finite amounts of love and happiness in the world, and that one person's joy was automatically another's misery, one person's love another's loss. It was simple as a primary school sum. Love. It seems to Zoe that people use that word to excuse the inexcusable. Like her mother. Like her friends. As if they have no choice, no control over themselves. Well, not her. And then she meets Tom. Intense, exciting and scaring her half to death. Love, when it comes, is nothing like what she expected. Tanning. (ISBN: 9781877135286). Good.
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NZD 11.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 6.83 | £UK 5.25 | JP¥ 974]
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Keywords: NZ, Fiction9781877135286 9781877135286
Love and Other Excuses
Longacre Press 1999 Paperback, 212pp. I knew at that moment that Tom Brannigan would stay a secret. That there were only finite amounts of love and happiness in the world, and that one person's joy was automatically another's misery, one person's love another's loss. It was simple as a primary school sum.Love. It seems to Zoe that people use that word to excuse the inexcusable. Like her mother. Like her friends. As if they have no choice, no control over themselves. Well, not her. And then she meets Tom. Intense, exciting and scaring her half to death. Love, when it comes, is nothing like what she expected. (ISBN: 9781877135286). Good.
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NZD 13.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 8.02 | £UK 6 | JP¥ 1143]
Catalogue: General
Keywords: NZ, Fiction9781877135286 9781877135286
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