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The 2007 Award

Hibiscus Coast by Paula Morris


 

 

Nominated by:

  • Dunedin Public Libraries, Dunedin, New Zealand

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd.
ISBN 0143019767

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK
Emma Taupere returns to Auckland from Shanghai, where her training as a painter has made her a copyist of incredible skill. Now, Siaki, her ambitious and manipulative ex-boyfriend, has recruited her as a forger, shutting Emma away in a borrowed apartment on Princes Wharf.
Emma works day and night copying one of the most valuable Goldie paintings in the Auckland Museum until a rash act by her damaged young cousin, Ani, exposes her to danger, and Emma has no choice but to flee up the Hibiscus Coast.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paula Morris (Ngati Wai) is a novelist and short story writer from Auckland. Queen of Beauty, her first novel, won the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing and Hubert Church Best First Book Award at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Her second novel, Hibiscus Coast, a literary thriller about the art world set in contemporary Auckland and Shanghai, was published in by Penguin 2005 and immediately optioned for film. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Paula is an assistant professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, where she teaches creative writing.


 

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