Relief

NZSA HUBERT CHURCH BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION AWARD WINNER

Relief
Anna Taylor
Victoria University Press
ISBN 9780864735874
RRP $30.00

A little girl out of her depth in her friendship with an adult neighbour; an armed intruder thwarted by a bee; a woman determined to believe in her brother’s goodness under the shadow of accusation; a Christmas dinner guest who will eat only peas—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.

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. [Author pic by Victoria Birkinshaw]