Author(s): Fiona Farrell

New Zealand Fiction

This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth of a young girl into womanhood - is at once interesting, moving and worth reading in its own right, but the succession of books read at each stage offer a linking motif. In Fiona's accessible, beautiful style, the work unfolds; it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, touching and intriguing - a work for every lover of books. An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction âÃÂàfrom The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry; from Enid Blyton to Aphra Behn. Launched on 3rd September, at Our City, with a bevy of writers & readers, and MCB.