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The
2004 Award
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The Hopeful Traveller by Fiona Farrell |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Sometime in the 1860s Harry Head - 'the Hermit of Hickory Bay' - experimented unsuccessfully with flight in an isolated valley on Banks Peninsula. His story forms part of the exuberant blend of fact and fiction that constitutes this tale of hope. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Born in Omaru and educated at Otago and Toronto, Fiona Farrell has been writing since the 1980s. To date she has published two books of poetry, two collections of short stories and two previous novels. Her novel The Skinny Louie Book won the New Zealand Book Award or Fiction in 1992, and she has won many other awards, including the Bruce Mason Award for Playwrights and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton. |
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