The Book of Secrets

by Fiona Kidman
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The Book of Secrets, Fiona Kidman

A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu.

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    ISBN: 9781775532866
    Published: 07/12/2012
    Imprint: RHNZ Vintage
    Extent: 376 pages
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A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu.

In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him from Scotland in 1817 to found a settlement in Nova Scotia, then subsequently to New Zealand via Australia.

Their incredible journeys actually happened, and in this winner of the New Zealand Book Awards, Fiona Kidman breathes life and contemporary relevance into the facts by creating a remarkable fictional story of three women entangled in the migrations - Isabella, her daughter Annie and granddaughter Maria.

McLeod's harsh leadership meant that anyone who ran counter to him had to live a life of secrets. The 'secrets' encapsulated the spirit of these women in their varied reactions to McLeod's strict edicts and connect the past to the present and future.

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Aug 24

Dame Fiona Kidman Wins the 2011 Prime Minister’s Award

by Random House NZ on 24 August 2011

Dame Fiona Kidman Wins the 2011 Prime Minister’s Award 0 comments

Dame Fiona Kidman was presented with the Prime Minister’s Award for her significant contribution to New Zealand literature

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"The novel is truthful in the ways that history never is, in creating the lives of ordinary, important people." - Christchurch Press

"In the craft of her storytelling and in her compassionate gutsy tough expression of female experience, she is the best we have." - NZ Listener

"The Book of Secrets is . . . being hailed as Fiona Kidman’s best and most ambitious novel to date. It traces familiar ground in her work, women’s lives and intertwined histories, but lifts them into a wider and more reverberative fabrication." - Dominion Sunday Star Times

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