An utterly compelling, award-winning recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships; in more recent years The Captive Wife was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction and was joint-winner of the Readers' Choice Award in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and her short story collection The Trouble with Fire was shortlisted for both the NZ Post Book Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships; in more recent years <i>The Captive Wife </i>was runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction and was joint-winner of the Readers' Choice Award in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and her short story collection <i>The Trouble with Fire</i> was shortlisted for both the NZ Post Book Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.