HarperHighlights December

Hazards of Time Travel JOYC E CAROL OAT E S

From the Ashes D E BOR AH CHA L L I NOR

A captivating story of family and friendship through one decade of incredible change

In 1950s Auckland, things are changing — and fast. Women are joining the workforce in numbers, whitegoods are readily available and the age of rock’n’roll has arrived.

Allie Manaia works the Elizabeth Arden counter at Smith and Caugheys. It’s been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some of her friends perished, but she still has nightmares. Kathleen Lawson — rich, lonely and bored — is one of Allie’s customers. Kathleen takes a shine to Allie, but when Kathleen discovers Allie’s husband is Maori, her attitude changes. Is she trying to make friends or poison the relationship between Sonny and Allie? Meanwhile, Sonny’s beautiful younger sister, Polly, is embracing the more relaxed moral standards of the era, living a vibrant, but wayward, life as a waitress–model–goodtime girl, while leaving her young daughter to be raised by her mother. As each woman navigates the shifting social and cultural landscape of the 1950s, she is faced with new possibilities and decisions — with freedom comes joy, but also fear and, occasionally, mistakes. Deborah Challinor is the author of 15 bestselling historical fiction novels, two works of non-fiction and a young adult novel. For the last three years, she has been the number one bestselling author of fiction in New Zealand. In 2018, she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and historical research. Deborah has a PhD in history from Waikato University and has taught researching and writing historical fiction at university level for several years.

Fiction | December 2018

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society

When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ — that existed 80 years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ — but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery — and an oblique, but powerful, response to our current political climate. ‘The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

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9780008295455 | e 9780008295462 | Released: 16/11/18 TPB | 336pp | AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Publicity contact: Kajal.Narayan@harpercollins.com.au

9781460754122 | e 9781460708538 | Released: 16/11/18 TPB | 448pp | AU $32.99 NZ $36.99 Publicity contact: Alice.Wood@harpercollins.com.au

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