Breakwater

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Breakwater
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kate Duigan
SeriesVUP Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780864734174
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General
Edition 2nd New edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Te Herenga Waka University Press
Imprint Victoria University Press
Publication Date 9 August 2018
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

An astonishingly confident and graceful first novel, Breakwater addresses the major dilemmas of friendship and family. It follows the moving story of a young woman and the baby she didn't plan, an older woman and the daughter she might lose, and the accidents of life that bring them together.

Author Biography

Kate Duignan's first novel, Breakwater, was published by Victoria University Press in 2001 and her second novel, The New Ships, in 2018. She has published in Landfall and Sport, and has been anthologised in The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (2009) and The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012). Kate received the Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary in 2002, and held the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University in 2004. Kate lives in the Aro Valley, Wellington, with her partner and children.