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In the Time of the Manaroans

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Title
In the Time of the Manaroans
Book Author
Bilbrough, Miro
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Extent
300pp
Format
138 x 210mm
Binding
Paperback
Category
Trade Non-fiction, Memoir/Biography
Publication Date
September 2020
Rights Available
World excl New Zealand
Rights Enquiry Name and Email

Craig Gamble
craig.gamble@vuw.ac.nz

Publisher Website
https://vup.victoria.ac.nz
About the Book

At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of the Wakamarina River, which routinely invades its rooms.

About the Author

Miro Bilbrough is a writer and filmmaker who grew up in New Zealand and lives in Australia. Her poetry chapbook Small-time spectre was published by Kilmog in 2010, and she has a Creative Doctorate of Arts in screenwriting and screen studies from the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University.