The Skinny Louie Book (Popular Penguin)

Description

Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's The Skinny Louie Book - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. First published 1882.

Awards

Winner of New Zealand Book Award Fiction Category 1993.

Author description

The Skinny Louie Book (1992), which was Fiona Farrell's first novel, won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her novels The Hopeful Traveller (2002) and Book Book (2004) were runners-up at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Her most recent novel was 2009's Limestone.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780143204336
• Publisher : Penguin Group (NZ)
• Imprint : Penguin Books (NZ)
• Publication date : March 2010
• Dimensions : 178mm X 111mm
• Produced in : New Zealand
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 285pp
• Dewey classification : 823.2
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Fiona Farrell