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Tanya Moir
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'I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.'
So begins the new novel, Anticipation, officially released on Friday 1st March, and now making its way onto the shelves of New Zealand bookstores (the ebook is also available internationally for download now from all the usual places).
It's a bit of... Read more of this blog post »
So begins the new novel, Anticipation, officially released on Friday 1st March, and now making its way onto the shelves of New Zealand bookstores (the ebook is also available internationally for download now from all the usual places).
It's a bit of... Read more of this blog post »
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La Rochelle's Road
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Anticipation
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“I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.”
― Tanya Moir
― Tanya Moir
“Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better.”
― Tanya Moir, La Rochelle's Road
― Tanya Moir, La Rochelle's Road
“We're all made to the same pattern. Knitted up like a thrifty housewife's sock from scraps - random unravelled bits of yarn that used to make someone else, chance combinations from the hand-me-down wardrobes of dead strangers.
But surely the execution must have an effect? After all, some knit better than others. I could never master it myself.”
― Tanya Moir, Anticipation
But surely the execution must have an effect? After all, some knit better than others. I could never master it myself.”
― Tanya Moir, Anticipation
“My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.”
― Peter Carey, Illywhacker
― Peter Carey, Illywhacker
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen
― Jane Austen
“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
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