The Night Book

Charlotte Grimshaw

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Random House
07 May 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards this is an unflinching novel on contemporary NZ society.

Award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw has turned her unflinching eye on contemporary New Zealand society in this intricate and elegant novel.

Sharp, moving, brimming with insight and observation, The Night Book is at once a meditation on power and politics, and an intensely humane look at the choices people make as they struggle, against the odds, to maintain love and integrity in their lives.

'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.'

Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large, comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be changed forever. In the next few months there will be an election, and, if the polls are correct, Roza will become the Prime Minister's wife. She has faced the prospect with relative calm, but a chance encounter with party donor Simon Lampton sparks a chain of consequences that will bring turmoil to both their lives.

By: Charlotte Grimshaw
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9781869793500
ISBN 10: 1869793501
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 07 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Provocation, Guilt and Foreign City. In 2000 she was awarded the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. She has been a double finalist and prizewinner in the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, and in 2006 she won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. In 2007 she won a Book Council Six Pack prize. Her story collection Opportunity was short listed for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and, in 2008, Opportunity won New Zealand's premier Montana award for fiction, along with the Montana medal. She was also the 2008 Montana Book Reviewer of the year. Her story collection, Singularity was short listed for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Prize and the South East Asia and Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She writes a monthly column in Metro magazine, for which she won a 2009 Qantas Media Award. She lives in Auckland.