A01=Emily Perkins
adolesence
auckland
Author_Emily Perkins
betrayal
Category=FB
charismatic woman
coming of age
destructive effects
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female friendship
heartbreak
leave before you go
liminal space
lioness
mistrust
New Zealand
not her real name
novel about my wife
nz
ockham women's prize
ostensibly concrete bond
wellington
Product details
- ISBN 9781526681171
- Weight: 218g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In a small town in New Zealand, lifelong friends, Rachel, Julia and Chicky, are celebrating the end of school, enjoying the liminal space of the summer holidays before their lives will be transformed by university, careers and adulthood. The arrival of Miranda, an exotically beautiful and charismatic woman, will have a profound effect on the ostensibly concrete bond between the girls, revealing long-ignored cracks in their friendships.
Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.
