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Susan Pearce

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Born

Wellington, New Zealand

Website

http://swimmingwithbooks.wordpress.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Member Since

September 2007

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/susannahmp

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I live in Wellington, New Zealand. My first novel, Acts of Love, was published by Victoria University Press in 2007. I love to hear that people have read the book, even if a single copy is going around an entire book club. Someone recently told me that Leland reminded her of [the media's depiction of] Julian Assange.

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Love drives.

Towards the end of last year I went hunting for some replacement in the NZ poetry shelves of Arty Bees. An acquaintance who’d borrowed the beautiful, second-hand Curnow I’d found there had cheerfully denied any knowledge of it when we met on the corner of Wakefield and Tory, so I hoped to chance on more of his poetry. Curnow was absent that day, but this turned up instead.