Ash

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Thea lives under a mountain one thats ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice has been called back during maternity leave and is coping just with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her bosss search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children, Eli and Lucy. But something is shifting in Thea something is burning. Or is it that she is becoming aware, for the first time, of the bright, hot core at her centre Then comes an urgent call. Ingeniously layered, Ash is a story about reckoning with ones rage and finding marvels in the midst of chaos.

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I have not felt this seen by a book, ever. Ash worked through me like a drug: I will be going back again and again. The craft is exquisite, the comedy deeply satiating. What Louise Wallace has achieved in Ash is a monumental call to all the women who have been called good girls and bitches with the same breath. Ash simmers and smokes with honesty. It makes sparks fly.

Author Bio

Louise Wallace is the author most recently of This Is A Story About Your Mother, and three other collections of poetry. She is the founder and editor of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the editor of rongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow. She grew up in Gisborne and lives in tepoti Dunedin. Ash is her first novel.