Tess

Author(s): Mcdougall Kirsten

Fiction | No Category

In the silence she could hear the oncoming hum, like a large flock approaching. She didn't want to hear his story; she'd had enough of them. Tess is on the run when she's picked up from the side of the road by lonely middle-aged father Lewis Rose. With reluctance, she's drawn into his family troubles and comes to know a life she never had. Set in Masterton at the turn of the millennium, Tess is a gothic love story about the ties that bind and tear a family apart.


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Longlisted for Ockhams Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize 2018

"I love novels about amelioration, about people trying to mend and fix themselves. Kirsten McDougall's brave and brilliant Tess is one of these. A novel of tender observation and deftly judged suspense, Tess imagines what it might mean for someone to really know what goes on inside others." - Elizabeth Knox

Kirsten McDougall's first book, a series of interconnected short stories, The Invisible Rider, was published by VUP in 2012. She has published stories and non-fiction in Landfall, Sport, Turbine and Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-fiction 2016. She was the recipient of the 2013 Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, and won the short category of 'The Long and the Short of It' fiction competition in 2011. Kirsten works as a publicist and literary manager in Wellington.

General Fields

  • : 9781776561001
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : August 2017
  • : .7 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.25 Inches
  • : August 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mcdougall Kirsten
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : Near Fine
  • : 160