Elizabeth Knox's new novel Wake is released early November. Wake is a horror story set in the Tasman Bay fictional settlement of Kahukura which is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity one sunny morning.
Speaking about Wake, Elizabeth said, “If Vintner came to me out of the blue, then Wake arrived out of the black, in 2009, shortly after a series of terrible events befell both my and my husband's families. The novel was my way of talking back to my feelings about catastrophe. Later it became a place where I got to talk-to tell a story-about how people get on, with their lives and with one another, when facing dreadful things. And because I knew I was writing a book that was horror and literary fiction I wanted it to deliver, over and over again the whole way though, fear, suspense, and feeling.”
Ahead of the novel's release Elizabeth will be a guest at the Kokomai Arts Festival at Gladstone Vineyard on Saturday 19 October, 4.30pm reading and discussing fiction alongside two other VUP authors, Amy Head and Danyl Mclauchlan. Elizabeth will also appear at the Tauranga Arts Festival on Friday 1 November, 11.45am.
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