Book description
What happened that connects a diverse group of characters, along with
an ex-All Black and an elephant? The people who committed the act of
revenge in 1985 thought it was perfectly executed. Twenty years on, the
truth is revealed, the truth about the deception that started it all.
Darkly satirical and wickedly funny, this novel takes a tilt at a range
of contemporary matters, including sexual stereotyping, militant
feminism, the machismo of the All Blacks, new age beliefs, psychiatry,
womb burial and naming ceremonies. Since the much-loved The Heart s
Wild Surf in 1996, Stephanie Johnson has published six more novels,
three of them historical. She is a past winner of the Montana Book Award
(for The Shag Incident), the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton
and the Bruce Mason Memorial Playwright s Award. She has also held the
University of Auckland writers residency and several of her novels
have been long-listed for the Impac Awards in Dublin. With Peter Wells,
Stephanie founded the highly successful Auckland Writers and Readers
Festival in 1998. Known also for her poetry, plays and short stories,
Stephanie lives in Auckland with her husband and youngest daughter.
