Author(s): Lloyd Jones

New Zealand Fiction

Baby talk. A child's game. But the words take on a sinister new meaning when employed by Ben Strang in the seduction of his de facto wife's twelve-year-old daughter.
This novel is the searing account of the outcome of perverted desires and betrayal - and of the spreading ripples of damage and deceit caused by a ruthless predator when adult witnesses are silenced by their own hurt and guilt, and choose to put selfish interests ahead of the truth.
Choo Woo is also a story of Natalie's father, drawn obsessively into the heart of the darkness by the promise of healing which knowledge may or may not bring.
Choo Woo is one of the most passionate and intense novels published in New Zealand.