Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
The author of the most talked-about book in New Zealand this year talks about her life and her work at a literary event in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday night.
Celebrated Kiwi novelist Charlotte Grimshaw hit the headlines with her ‘‘explosive’’ memoir,
The Mirror Book, which critiques her father, literary lion C.K. Stead, who’s now 88.
After being traumatised by a marriage crisis, Grimshaw who grew up knowing NZ’s literary elite as regular visitors to her home realised her family background had been far
darker than what her father had painted.
The memoir tells of her parents’ hostility towards a daughter who was repeatedly accused of fantasising, stroppy me-too feminism, lacking humour and being ‘‘Charlotte-chaotic’’.
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