Charlotte Grimshaw
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Charlotte Grimshaw is a New Zealand novelist. Her first book, Provocation came about from her experience as a criminal lawyer. Her second book, Guilt, followed the lives of four individuals in Auckland in 1987. She also wrote a collection of short stories, Opportunity, which was published in 2007. mehr anzeigen Her next story collection, Singularity, was a companion to Opportunity, and was published in 2009. In 2015 her book, Starlight Peninsula, made The New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Geburtstag
- 1966
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- New Zealand
- Wohnorte
- Auckland, New Zealand
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- University of Auckland
- Berufe
- lawyer
writer - Beziehungen
- Stead, C. K. (father)
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- Buddle Findlay Sargeson Writers Fellowship (2000)
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Maya was living and working in London with her boyfriend Joe, when communication ceases. Frances is unable to make contact and after discovering her ex, Nick in her home she flees. She seeks out Joe's mother and then impulsively heads to London. Frances is a writer and uses the cover of researching her new novel. She is soon joined by Mazarine, Joe's mother. The women's search takes them to Paris and then South America. Their are political implications which adds to the mounting tensions.The two women develop a romantic relationship. The author creates many doubts in the readers mind as to the stability of Frances's mental health and I felt much was unresolved at the close of this novel. Was Nick following her across continents or was this a reflection of her own paranoia? The search is resolved but the unreliable first person narrator was hard to like.… (mehr)