Book Launch: Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent

Join Āporo Press at Unity Books Wellington on Halloween, 31 October, to celebrate the debut novel by Laura Vincent.

🎃 Friday 31 October, 6pm

🎃 Unity Books Wellington

🎃 All welcome!

Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them.

In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other’s buttons, but know precisely when to offer tea (or a tipple). Rita, the 50-year-old baby of the family, is planning to tell them she has cancer. Drifting between past and present, she considers the lives of women in their community and reckons with what it all means for her future and her family.

Featuring elderly lesbians, twins who aren’t twins, and several dogs named Roger, Hoods Landing is about shoddy pasts, ambiguous futures and the imperfect bonds that tie family together.

About the author:

Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāpuhi) is an author whose work spans fiction, poetry and food writing. She has written the food blog hungryandfrozen.com since 2007, and her debut cookbook was published by Penguin Random House in 2013. Laura’s poetry has appeared in anthologies published by Āporo Press, Auckland University Press and Muswell Press, and she completed her Master of Creative Writing at Auckland University of Technology in 2022. Born in Waiuku, Laura currently lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Hoods Landing is her first novel.

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