Dec 3, 2013 | Books, eBook, For sale, novels
Someone burned Hester’s house down. She’s going to find them them and when she does, she’s going to burn their house down. An eye for an eye. That’s what life’s about, decides Hester.
She’s made three New Year resolutions – give up swearing, give up asking rhetorical questions, give up sex. She’s discovered how to set fire to a house without being caught, organised a get out of town plan, everything’s set on go.
Then her mother dies, her best friend begs Hester to do the one thing she’s sworn never to do again – direct a play with teenagers – and her sister, off on a holiday on some Pacific Island, says she can’t change her plans so Hester will have to clean their mother’s house and get it ready for sale.
To make matters worse ex-Senior Sergeant, ex-friend, Auden Porohiwi is very interested in Hester’s plans – does he know who the arsonist was? Is he protecting someone? Does he know what Hester’s planning?
Who cares, thinks Hester, it’s now or never. So its now.
In Too Many Cooks, Renée’s trademark humour, acute sense of the absurd, her insight into the many and various impulses that make people tick, produces a funny, touching and enthralling story of love, desire and revenge that goes very wrong before it comes right.
Feb 3, 2013 | Books, novels
About a young adolescent girl and her widowed mother.
Feb 2, 2013 | Books, novels
For over thirty years Flora Thornley kept secret from her family the fact that she had a daughter out of wedlock. Now she decides to make contact with the child. But nothing has prepared her for the bombshell of the letter that comes from Chloe: (more…)
Feb 2, 2013 | Books, novels
Yin & Tonic is one woman’s account of her search for the marbles she lost many years ago, probably behind the school bike shed. (more…)
Jan 25, 2013 | Books, novels
The Snowball Waltz. The music starts, two people invited by the Master (or in this case, Mistress) of Ceremonies begin to waltz. When the music stops they separate and seek other partners from those sitting or standing around the edge of the dance floor. No one invited to dance may refuse, although when the music next stops, a dancer may leave the floor and not extend the invitation to dance to anyone else. They may not dance again in this particular Snowball Waltz.
The pattern of music, dance, silence, separation, music, dance, silence, separation, is repeated until all the people in the room are up and waltzing. The Snowball Waltz then continues with the same partners until the music stops, the dance ends and the dancers go their separate ways.
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Jan 25, 2013 | Books, novels
‘Are you going to invite your ex?’
‘Am I what?’
‘My father. Are you going to invite him?’
When Luke and Polly decide to get married, the stage is set for turmoil and more than a few surprises. With parents like Polly’s, this will be a wedding with a difference.
Combining satire with the wit and energy of a screwball comedy, Willy Nilly is a provocative, entertaining first novel from acclaimed playwright Renée.
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