5 books by Emma Neale
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Overview: EMMA NEALE, a poet and prose writer, was born in Dunedin and raised in Christchurch, San Diego, CA, and Wellington. After gaining her first literature degree from Victoria University, she went on to complete her MA and PhD at University College London. She has written five novels — Night Swimming, Little Moon, Relative Strangers, Double Take and Fosterling — and a number of poetry collections, and has edited anthologies of both short stories and poetry. Neale won the Todd New Writer’s Bursary in 2000, was the inaugural recipient of the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature (2008), and was the 2012 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. Her poetry collection The Truth Garden won the Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry in 2011, and Fosterling was shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2012. Her collection Tender Machines was longlisted in the inaugural Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She teaches, works in publishing and looks after her two young sons.
Genre: Fantasy | New Zealand
Fosterling
A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven-feet tall, his skin covered in thick hair, which reminds onlookers of an animal’s pelt. When he wakes in a city hospital, he is eerily uncommunicative. Speculation begins. Doctors want to run tests on him, the media want to get his story, and the public want to gawp and prod. When a young woman befriends him and he starts to talk, his identity seems to grow more complex. On his release from hospital, events drive him into hiding. Yet how can a young man of such uncommon appearance find true refuge?
A moving, compelling story about society and our reactions to difference, convincingly evoked, beautifully written.
Billy Bird
Moving, insightful, lyrical and also at times very funny, this novel is a supple, disarmingly frank exploration of parenthood.
Liam and Iris have one son: Billy, a bright ‘toddler puddling about [. . .] leaving surrealist art installations all over the house— a tiny cow in a teapot in a hat on the doorstep, of course! A stuffed crocodile in a silk camisole perched beside a woollen chick in a beanie on the bread-bin, why not!’ Just as they are despairing about being able to conceive another child, Jason comes into their family. He arrives under fraught circumstances, but might just make a perfect sibling for Billy. Jason is a ‘ lovely, poor, sad, unfortunate, ordinary, annoying, delightful nuisance of a ratbag of a hoot of a kid ‘ and the boys grow close over the ensuing years. But after a terrible accident, Billy turns into a bird. He utterly believes it: and as his behaviour becomes increasingly worrying, Liam and Iris must find a way to stop their family flying apart.
When extracts of Billy Bird won the NZSA/Philip and Dianne Beatson Fellowship, the judges said the project was ‘inventive, joyful and beautifully written’. Ripe with playfulness, yet also unforgettably poignant, this novel will unstitch — and then mend — your heart several times over.
Little Moon
I was the girl who killed her brother. People always seemed to find out soon enough. I guess you could say that, over the years, I built myself around this fact: his absence was like the gap at the centre of a hive. When I left my hometown, years and years afterwards, I chose not to tell people about what gaped where the core of me should have been. Because when I was growing up, even when they had learned that I was practically a baby myself at the time, just an ordinary five-year-old who hardly knew a jot, people just couldn’t help themselves: they stared. There was a way they had of looking at me, both wary and transfixed, as if compelled by the moving lights on a screen. Thinking, Christ, her poor mother, how must she feel about that child?
Relative Strangers
I like to keep my distance from real lives, yeah? I mean, why would I want to know what was right at the heart of anyone else? Why would I want to share someone else’s troubles with them, when I could just rock along, coasting on the surface, worry about nothing much more than where I was drinking tonight, or whether I was getting enough fun on the weekend …Colin should have the house to himself this Christmas. His flatmates are away and so is girlfriend, who has gone on holiday without admitting the chill in their relationship. So who is the distraught woman in his lounge, along with a pushchair and screaming baby? Like it or not, Colin must play the host to these uninvited guests, whose revelations begin to work loose his own tightly guarded secrets. Beautifully written, moving, acutely observed and psychologically deep, Emma Neale’s latest novel captures and illuminates past and contemporary New Zealand relationships without a single false note.
Double Take
Growing up, the Marshall twins seemed to be ideal siblings. Yet when you’re so akin to someone else, who are you, really?
Candy discovers a gift for music, yet in nearly every aspect of her life, Jeff is there – pre-empting, mirroring. To work out who she genuinely is, Candy begins to believe she must separate from her brother for good. But at what grave cost?
This is a rich, absorbing novel that explores the push for creativity and the dynamics of family. It takes us into the world of grotty student flats, fiery politicos, eating disorders, and travels the convolutions of sexuality and first love.
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