Book description
Stephanie was always the outsider - never allowed to play with the
china dolls on the staircase landing, always on the edge of family
events, shut out of the important secrets. Now, after many years, she
returns to the family house, on the lonely margins of the sea, to care
for her cousin Louise. But now it is her immediate past, too, that
haunts her - the time she has spent locked away for a crime she dare not
recall. With consummate skill, insight and pungency, Shonagh Koea weaves
her magic once again in this memorable novel. Shonagh Koea s notable
writing career met with early success in a Woman s Weekly writing
contest, in which (aged eight) she won two guineas. She went on to
become a journalist and to win the Air New Zealand Short Story Award
(1981), and more recently to write three short story collections as well
as seven novels. Of the novels, Sing to Me, Dreamer was a finalist in
the New Zealand Book Awards (1995) and The Lonely Margins of the Sea was
runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction (1999). Shonagh Koea has also
held the University of Auckland Fellowship in Literature (1993) and the
Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship (1997).
