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Margaret, like her elder sister Elizabeth, was named after an English princess. But Elizabeth is dead and Margaret is still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. She embarks on a Maori degree and enters an enchanting new world of colour, passion and even violence.
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Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress and author who lives in London. She has a university degree in English and Maori and won the Bancroft Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Please visit the author's website www.barbaraewing.com
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In that city, at the end of their street, was the sea. * This simple yet evocative line sets the scene for a powerful novel. Barbara Ewing introduces us to three girls growing up in a troubled New Zealand during the 1950s. Margaret Bennett, the heroine, works in the Bureau by day and studies Maori by night, ret * Ewing's rites-of-passage novel is given a delicious sharpness by the contrast in cultures and by her grasp of period detail, making it an achieved, subtle read. * SUNDAY TIMES * A breathlessly gripping tale with a dramatic climax. * SUNDAY POST * A beautiful and profoundly moving novel. * WOMAN AND HOME *
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- PublisherLittle, Brown & Co
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0316646911
- ISBN 13 9780316646918
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages341
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Paperback. Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life and its meaning. And against the frankly odd, strained and curiously English household she inhabits in a New Zealand city, it is hard to make out the truth. So Margaret abandons what her parents think is right: learning English history, the French language, listening to comedy shows on the World Service and returning home on the 9.30 tram and maps out a course of her own. She studies Maori at University, makes friends with the wayward Emily (daughter of the soon to be Prime Minister of New Zealand) and shy, independent Prudence. As a trio they study hard for their degrees, work by day at the local Government offices and by night sing, drink and laugh with the local Maori people - and fall in love. A new world, an enchanting world, and one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and even violence. Far removed from the closed, ordered life of Margaret Rose's family, but perhaps not so detached from their own, secret history. Here is an extraordinary, poetic novel of a society trapped in a time of its own, undercut by a people that live and breathe with a vigour that bubbles and burst through the silent surface. Author Information: Barbara Ewing was born and brought up in New Zealand and is well known there and in the UK as an actress. She lives in central London where she combines her dual careers of acting and writing. Her novel, THE ACTRESSES was published by Little, Brown to great acclaim in 1997 Back List: THE ACTRESSES (Little Brown/Warner 1997/1998) Reviews: For THE ACTRESSES: 'An excellent account of the late middle-aged antics of the class of '59' SUNDAY TIMES 'She weaves a plot as complex as fair-isle knitting .1 Centimeters X 13.5 Centimeters X 21.6 Centimeters. Seller Inventory # 9154235
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