Book description
Kate Wildburn is in trouble. She is an extrovert, a lateral thinker and
a talented pianist. She is also a good wife and mother, and an
attractive woman who enjoys being a woman. Richard, her surgeon husband,
is balding, aggressive, hard on his children à Â- and is he having an
affair? The Warrior Queen is a subversive look at modern middleÃ
Â-class marriage, a guerrilla war of the sexes fought in well-heeled
Auckland among the trendy homes and chic cafes of Remmers and Parnell.
With her fine ear for male bluster and female bitchiness, and her subtle
observations of family life, Barbara Else has created an elegant black
comedy to entertain à Â- and warn à Â- readers from either of the
warring camps. Barbara Else is the author of numerous best-selling
novels and books for children, and has edited a number of collections of
stories for children and Grandstands, in which top New Zealand writers
talk about grandparenthood. Her first novel, The Warrior Queen, was
shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She was the
Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 1999. With her
husband, writer Chris Else, Barbara runs TFS, a Wellington-based
literary agency and assessment service.
