Vividwater

Name: Vividwater
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SKU: 9780473730277
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By Jacqueline Owens

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In a future world, supplies of drinkable water are depleted, except for a few hydrospheres. A huge gulf grows between the water-rich few with watercards and the water-poor scavvos. Alex is a mnemopath, a memory machine for a senior manager in water export trading, feeding facts... Read More

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Vividwater

Vividwater is a darkly funny novel set in a near-future AotearoaNZ that is running out of clean water. Alex toils in workplace dystopia, with a huge gulf between the water-rich few with watercards and water-poor scavvos who can’t access enough safe water. It was shortlisted twice in the Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize.

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In a future world, supplies of drinkable water are depleted, except for a few hydrospheres. A huge gulf grows between the water-rich few with watercards and the water-poor scavvos.

Alex is a mnemopath, a memory machine for a senior manager in water export trading, feeding facts into her boss’s earpiece and eavesdropping. Her job isn’t noble, but she needed the water allowance.

When an old boyfriend, Lawrence, returns, working for the main Chinese water company, Alex dreams of escape. But Lawrence exposes his company’s marketing fraud and is disappeared back to China.

Alex is ousted from her company, on the grounds of fraternising with the company Lawrence worked for. Her watercard turned off, Alex finds a way to fight back. Her bosses underestimate her, but as a human memory machine, she knows enough to blackmail them.

Now she just has to get to China to find Lawrence.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780473730277

Publisher: Four Elements Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2025

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Four Elements Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 260

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About the Author

Jacqueline Owens lives in Wellington. Vividwater was longlisted for Grindstone Literary International Novel Prize, and shortlisted twice in the Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. It is the first in a three-part series.

Excerpts and short stories from other manuscripts have been published in online journals. A screenplay, The Floating World, won the New Zealand Writers Guild (NZWG) Best Unproduced Screenplay Competition and another, Three Gardens, was a quarterfinalist in the Nicholl and Blue Cat competitions. A young adult novel, Bluest Moon, was published by New Women’s Press, in the 90s

Outside writing, she has had mnemopath-like jobs in government and made the most of degrees in Classics and Political Science, as a grand-finalist on Mastermind New Zealand, with subjects The Chronicles of Narnia and Classical Greek Mythology. While doing a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Screen and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, she was a university teaching assistant and assessed screenplays for production companies.