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Reading the chapter “Year of the zeros” is compelling reading for all.

It hadn’t been until he’d gone abroad that he’d been able to identify this trait as itself peculiarly Kiwi, to do a thing with effort was always more respectable than to have it done with ease; inconvenience, in New Zealand, tended to be treated as a test of character, such that it was a point of national pride to be able to withstand discomfort or poor service without giving in to the temptation to complain

Only something that a person didn’t want to see in print was news, and everything else was advertising.

Definitely a ‘finish next year’ Book.

You were a wanted child, God knows, she would say at other moments, lingering over the photo albums in which she had me framed; these albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit by some plague. She would say this a little regretfully, as though I hadn’t turned out entirely as she’d expected.