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The 2003 Award

The Swing Around

by Barbara Anderson

 

Nominated by

  • Dunedin Public Libraries, Dunedin, New Zealand

The Swing Around by Barbara Anderson

Publisher of Nominated Edition: Victoria University Press ISBN 0864734220
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ABOUT THE BOOK

New Zealand twenty years ago, when margarine was sold in pharmacies and protective tariffs ruled….The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade, an ex-dairy farmer called Hamish Carew, sets off on a Swing Around of New Zealand's Asian friends and neighbours. With him are his wife Molly and two young officials, Freddy Manders and Violet Redpath.
It should be a routine affair. But Molly doesn't like shopping. Freddy is consumed by bitterness at the wife who left him and the superiors who have sidelined his career, Violet finds herself at a loose end…. and lurking on the horizon is the shadowy terrorist group Lightning Storm.
The Swing Around is Barbara Anderson's funniest novel to date, and is also imbued with her compassionate wisdom about the ways people connect with one another.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Anderson is one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She is the best-selling author of seven novels, Girls High, Portrait of the Artist's Wife (winner of the 1992 Wattie Award), All the Nice Girls, The House Guest, Proud Garments and Long Hot Summer, The Swing Around and two collections of short stories.

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