Relief
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Relief
By (Author) Anna Taylor
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
5th April 2009
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.3
Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Award for Fiction 2010
Physical Properties
Paperback
221
Description
From a young girl's improper visit to an adult neighbour to a family's relief at the lifting of sex abuse charges, from a fasting Christmas Dinner guest to a messy stumble with an urn of ashes, these stories effortlessly mix the menacing and the comic, and handle real-life situations with warmth and subtlety. Relief introduces an astonishingly mature and confident new voice in New Zealand fiction.
Author Bio
Anna Taylor was born in 1982. She completed the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2006, and won the Adam Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript she wrote during that year. She lives in Wellington. This is her first book
