Crazy Love

Name: Crazy Love
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780143776284
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By Rosetta Allan

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Crazy Love, based on the author's own experiences, is a vivid novel that explores how - as the Van Morrison song suggests - crazy love can take away the troubles. However, it can also add a whole lot more. 'We save each other, don't we, when... Read More

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Crazy Love, based on the author's own experiences, is a vivid novel that explores how - as the Van Morrison song suggests - crazy love can take away the troubles. However, it can also add a whole lot more.

'We save each other, don't we, when we are in love.'

It has been 28 years since Vicki last sent a letter to Robert Muldoon. Last time she wrote, he was Prime Minister, while she was living with her loser-boyfriend and questioning why people like her had to exist in such dire straits. Back then, Muldoon sent her a dollar, but it was the irrepressible Billy who turned up and transformed her life. This time, Muldoon is dead, and it is Billy who has made her so desperate she doesn't know where to turn.

Since running away with Billy, Vicki has barely looked back. Together, they have become a family and prospered. They have survived so much, but can they survive Billy's increasingly erratic behaviour, especially when he seems so set on pulling them apart?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143776284

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 August 2021

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 336

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Published Penguin Books Rosetta Allan

About the Author

ROSETTA ALLAN is a writer of prose and poetry. Her work is widely anthologised, and she has published two volumes of poetry, Little Rock (2007) and Over Lunch (2010). Her first novel, Purgatory, was published by Penguin in 2014 and was selected by Apple Books as one of the best reads of that year. Rosetta has received the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, the Metonymy Best Poem Award, a South Pacific Pictures Emerging Writers' Lab internship, a Sir James Wallace Master of Creative Writing Scholarship, and a Michael King Writers Centre Emerging Writers Residency, and was the 2019 University of Waikato & Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence. In 2016, she was the first New Zealander to take up the St Petersburg Art Residency, located within the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Russia where she spent time researching her second novel The Unreliable People.

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