About the Author

Beryl's work has been acclaimed locally and internationally. She won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book for 'The Word Burners'; and her three other novels have been on the Top Twenty titles list for the Listener Book Festival in New Zealand. Beryl has been awarded numerous grants and frequently travels to Europe to speak about her work, two of her books are now published in German and one in Korean.

Reviews

"This Kiwi writer reflects on her past 40 years, incorporating her childhood through to her marriage and motherhood. You'll be tempted to plough through this in one sitting, but if you try and rush through it you won't do Beryl's poetic style any justice." --Rachelle Macintosh, "New Idea"