Two Girls in a Boat
By (Author) Emma Martin
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
5th March 2013
New Zealand
Paperback
200
A woman hacks at a tree while her daughter chases her targets deep into the bush. A visitor walks up the path towards razor-topped gates. A man drives his nameless passenger towards a fractured city. At the reservoir, dark shapes move in the depths of the water. Traversing England, the Balkans, and New Zealand past and present, these stories trace the unexpected paths of people's lives. From the winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Two Girls in a Boat is a debut of clear-eyed, unnerving brilliance.
Emma Martin grew up in Dunedin and has lived in Melbourne, Manchester, Edinburgh and London. Two Girls In A Boat is her first book.