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Someone's Wife

Someone's Wife

A Memoir of Sorts

by Linda Burgess
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/09/2019

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A brilliant collection of personal essays from a quietly subversive writer.

These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal and the observational. There are essays on her lifetime of being an All Black wife (once an AB, always an AB); her love of teaching, education and the young; and a powerful essay on the death of her baby, Toby, striking in its honesty.

Linda is interested in family and friendship; shared and sometimes distorted memories. Her personal truths link to universal truths. Linda explores the era in which she grew up, and her experiences are timeless. She looks at living overseas, at children leaving home, at house-hunting in Wellington, at travelling with a grandchild, at Leonard Cohen concerts as tribal gatherings.

Moving but never sentimental, Linda Burgess's essays are an engrossing read.

ISBN:
9781988547251
9781988547251
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
New Zealand
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Weight:
0.4kg

"Linda Burgess can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same sentence. Clear-eyed and wise, these elegant essays are the stories we share to survive."
Diana Wichtel

"You'll want to read this in one sitting but it's worth savouring every line."
Madeleine Chapman

"Somehow it makes perfect sense that a great New Zealand memoir would be written by a dreamy, left-handed wife of an ex-All Black."
Steve Braunias

Linda Burgess

Linda Burgess is the author of three novels, three non-fiction titles and one collection of short stories. She is a monthly television reviewer on Radio New Zealand on Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, and she was a television and film reviewer at the Dominion Post for several years. She's won a number of literary awards and has been a judge for a number of our national awards. She was shortlisted in the Voyager Media Awards 2019 for one of her essays recently published on The Spinoff. She lives in Wellington.

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