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The
2004 Award
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Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| In
the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many
of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbour. Young,
strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy,
illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion,
she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion
of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord
Hallowhulme, who owns the island - and has controversial plans for improving
the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie's Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling towards a brave new world, in an enchanting novel that combines a strange, sexy love story with a Edwardian mystery, bringing together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice and the loss of innocence. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Elizabeth Knox is the author of many books, including Black Oxen, The High Jump: A New Zealand Childhood and The Vintner's Luck, which won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. Her other honours include an Arts Council Scholarship in Letters, the Victoria University Writing Fellowship, the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship to Menton and a Laureate Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. |
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