Authors: Rachael King
Magpie Hall (28 page)
Rachael King has worked for various media, including
Rip it Up,
Staple, Pavement
and 95bFM, and as a researcher for television. She played bass guitar in several Flying Nun bands until the mid-nineties. In 2008 she was the Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury. This is her second novel; her first,
The Sound of Butterflies
, was a bestseller and in 2007 won the NZSA Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
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New York London Sydney Auckland Delhi Johannesburg First published 2009
(c) 2009 Rachael King The moral rights of the author have been asserted ISBN 978 1 86979 288 6
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