Starlight Peninsula

Starlight Peninsula
Charlotte Grimshaw
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 352pg
24 Jun 2015 NZ
International import eta 7-19 days
9781775538226
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Tracing the lines that run through our society, from the private, interior life of one lonely young woman to the top tier of power in the country, this novel demonstrates how little separates us and how close we really are: rich and poor, famous and hidden, virtuous and criminal. Eloise Hay lives on the peninsula. Every weekday she travels into the city from her comfortable house to work at Q TV Studio, assisting with the production of the weekly news programme, Roysmith. She loves this life, but one day she receives a phone call that will change it for ever. Thrown into the turmoil of a sudden marriage break-up, Eloise becomes increasingly isolated. An idea begins to take shape that a layer of the world has been hidden from her. As she struggles to cope with her loneliness and confusion, she revisits a traumatic episode from her past, and in doing so encounters an odd-eyed policewoman, a charismatic obstetrician, a German psychotherapist, and an Internet pirate wanted by the United States government. Each of these characters will reveal something about the life of Eloise Hay, answering questions that she hasn't, until now, had the courage to ask.
Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels and outstanding collections of linked stories. As a reviewer in The New Zealand Listener noted: 'A swarming energy pervades every page she writes... her descriptive writing has always been of the highest order. Most of it would work just as well as poetry.' She has been a double finalist and prize winner in the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, and in 2006 she won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. In 2007 she won a Book Council Six Pack prize. Her story collection Opportunity was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and in 2008 Opportunity won New Zealand's premier Montana Award for Fiction, along with the Montana Medal. She was also the 2008 Montana Book Reviewer of the Year. Her story collection Singularity was short-listed for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Prize and the South East Asia and Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Grimshaw's fourth novel, The Night Book was shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Award. She writes a monthly column in Metro magazine, for which she won a 2009 Qantas Media Award.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781775538226
Published: 24 Jun 2015
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Vintage New Zealand
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 352

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