Book description
'One thing she had learnt was that she and Leonie belonged to a breed
of women who were indestructible. They were survivors.' Taking risks is
something Harriet seems driven to do as she struggles to retain her
identity as a woman in the face of opposing demands from society.
Through her adolescence in rural New Zealand, two marriages and a
television career, she steadfastly maintains her quest. But, in the end:
What has she won? What had she lost? 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.
