BookHub’s June Highlights
Kia ora koutou and welcome to BookHub’s June Highlights,
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June is here, and as the temperatures drop and the Auckland Writers Festival buzz fades, there’s only one cure: a brilliant new book. Luckily, this month’s indie bookseller picks are just what the doctor ordered!
Ann Patchett returns with Whistler — our Book of the Month — and it promises to be everything we love about her. For thriller fans, there are two exciting arrivals worth watching from NZ debut authors Anna Woods and Anne Cleary, while Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Stakes is sure to get people talking. And for the young readers in your life, beloved series Detective Beans and Violet and the Velvets both have brand new instalments to devour.
There’s so much more where that came from — here’s what Aotearoa’s indie booksellers are recommending this month!
Happy reading,
– The BookHub Team
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Book of the Month
Whistler
Ann Patchett
When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Met museum in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives.
But meeting again now, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both. And reflecting on the short, intense time they spent with each other, they begin to piece together the moments that have defined them and shaped who they have become.
A moving, luminous story about how family, memory, and love endures, Whistler paints an intimate portrait of how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
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