Book description
Rose Kendall is alone. She is isolated from her children, her friends,
and her political ideals, and there is someone trying to scare her - she
doesn't know why and she doesn't know who. True Stars is a vivid
portrayal of New Zealand life in the late 1980s. It shows the tensions
and divisions that are echoed both on a national level and in family
relationships, which were crystallised by the 1981 Springbok Tour, and
which gnaw at differences in race, gender, class - and politics. It is a
savage and often humorous novel set during the last months of the Lange
Government. Fiona Kidman has written more than twenty books, mainly
novels and collections of short stories. Her most recent novel, The
Captive Wife, was a joint winner of the Readers' Choice Award and a
finalist for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2006 Montana New Zealand
Book Awards. Trouble with Fire has been shortlisted for the 2012 NZ Post
Book Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. She has been
awarded a number of prizes, honours and fellowships, including the Mobil
Short Story Award, the Victoria University Writers Fellowship, and the
OBE for services to literature. In 2006 she was the Meridian Energy
Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, France. In 2008 she was the
Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellow. Fiona Kidman is a Dame
Commander of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres, and a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour. She
lives in Wellington.
