name this book
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Topic: name this book
Posted By: lizzle
Subject: name this book
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 8:25pm
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read a book at uni, by an NZ writer. it's about this single mother who has about 8 kids i think, by different dads and the kids are named after the cities in which the father's come from. she tried to "collect" countries. i can remember the twins - one called Limerick. and they all live on an island and very rarely go in to town
and at the end she kills herself and you find out that the children are all figments of her imagination Anyone can help me "name that book"???? it's bugging me. |
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 9:02pm
| No, but it sounds awesome! I want to read it! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 9:05pm
Are you sure it's not a figment of YOUR imagination?  -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 9:11pm
It does sound interesting - although you have told us all how it ends lol   ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 10:32pm
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Do you want me to search the Massey library??? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 20 March 2008 at 11:01pm
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are you sure it is a NZ writer?
you knwo this is gonna drive a few of us on here nuts.... |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:55am
| I'm sure i read it in my NZ lit class.... |
Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:59am
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Yeah, I wanna read it too!
(even knowing the end of it) ------------- 
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Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 9:05am
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Google says - from this http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/duckworth.html - link
"She [Marilyn Duckworth] resurfaced in grand style, winning the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction with Disorderly Conduct (1984). This is vintage Duckworth, set in 1981 during the Springbok tour, its heroine, Sophie, afflicted by a mysterious ailment, trying vainly to juggle various lovers against the competing demands of her several children by different fathers" Could that be it? -------------
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 1:51pm
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no found it!
was browsing through a book called "where's waari" - short stories examining the Maori identity in NZ and found a story by robyn hyde - that rang a bell so i looked it up Robyn Hyde - Wednesday's children woooohooooo. thank you all very much for the help |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 2:22pm
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sounds weird but good! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:12pm
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LOL Liz, I have a copy of it here but have never read it! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:31pm
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I want to read it now!! ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
Luke (09.11.2007) Amy (01.04.2009) |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:11pm
| read it emma!!!! I am going to buy myself a copy, but have Keri Hulme to read now - she has a newish book , bout time. Am off to dad's tomorow - loving having time to read again. |