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** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS** 'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent…


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1 author picked Lioness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a gentle satire of the hypocrisy and at times ludicrous nature of bourgeois life in modern New Zealand, and of how a woman who married "up" into money struggles with it all, especially as the financial security unravels. Many of the characters are hilarious in their unwitting shallowness. The novel was deservedly acclaimed as New Zealand's best novel of the year at the awards ceremony earlier this year.

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