Renée
Renée has written six novels and seventeen plays, a collection of humorous articles (Yin & Tonic), and a guide to writing memoir, Your Life, Your Story. She has contributed to various anthologies and collections.
As well as writing, Renée enjoys teaching. She teaches Creative Writing at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, Wellington, and when time allows, tutors workshops (writing a novel and/or plays) all round New Zealand. She teaches an annual workshop, Your Life Your Story, for the Cancer Society of New Zealand (Wellington Branch).
Her novels include, Kissing Shadows (2005), The Skeleton Woman (2002), The Snowball Waltx (1997), Does This Make Sense to You? (1995), Daisy and Lily (1993) and Willy Nilly (1990).
Renée
There doesn’t seem much point in drawing attention to blackbirds or high tides when five thousand people are said to have died in the towers, when people in wheelchairs had to be left by the able-bodied because the lifts weren’t working and there was no time to step a wheelchair down the flights and flights of stairs … The images play on, over and over, as though if they are repeated enough times the world might actually get a grip on it … Tap, tap go the feet of the Skeleton Woman tap tap, tap tap, as everyone’s life changes forever.
Rose Anthony’s life has just become much more complicated. There’s a baby abandoned on her doorstep, and long kept secrets are about to fly into the open. But Rose has no room for this latest dilemma.
2002 | ISBN 9781876756307 | Paperback | 205 x 130 mm | 265 pages