Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader

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Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now.


Michelle Duff delves into Ardern's beginnings in small-town New Zealand, and her path to becoming one of the country's best-known Prime Ministers.

Duff tracks Ardern's political career, her leadership during Covid-19 and growing international profile, as well as at-home backlash and her eventual resignation.

Has Ardern really been a transcendent leader, and what enduring mark might she leave on the political landscape

This is an engrossing and powerful exploration of one of the most intriguing political stories of our time - telling us as much about one young woman's ascendancy as it does about the country that elected her.

'Sincere, intent, focused, and always readable. [This] book gets to a truth, and an understanding.' Steve Braunias, Newsroom

Author Bio

Michelle Duff is a multi-award winning New Zealand journalist and author whose work has appeared in print and online media in Aotearoa and internationally. She is known for her hard-hitting coverage of social justice issues, and specialises in telling people's stories with heart and sensitivity. She has scooped up two of the country's top Voyager Media Awards in feature writing, for her work on the widening race gap in education and inequities in maternity care. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her husband and two children. This is her first book.