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This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s — a very different time — and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It draws heavily on the diaries she kept from the age of twelve, which lead her to some surprising conclusions about memory and truth. Ewing struggled with what would now be diagnosed as anxiety; she had a difficult relationship with her brilliant but frustrated and angry mother; and her decision to somehow learn te reo Māori drew her into a world to which few Pākehā had access. A love affair with a young Māori man destined for greatness was complicated by society’s unease about such relationships, and changed them both. Evocative, candid, brave, bright and darting, this entrancing book takes us to a long-ago New Zealand and to enduring truths about love.
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist and playwright. She completed a BA in New Zealand, majoring in English and Māori, and worked in the Department of Maori Affairs and as a Maori Vocational Guidance Officer. She went to London on a government-awarded bursary and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After graduating with the 1965 Gold Medal she went on to become a well-known television, film and stage actress. She has also written nine successful novels, and has been published in twelve languages. She regularly returns home to New Zealand.
- ISBN-13
- 9780995122956
- Publisher
- Massey University Press
- Imprint
- Massey University Press
- Publication date
- 14 May 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- Dimensions
- 219 x 138 mm
- Language
- English
