“I felt very alone because I didn’t understand what it was and I didn’t think anybody else would understand,” she says. A key section is based on a long manic period James experienced ten years ago due to then-undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Crazy Love was going to be all about the Robert Muldoon years (New Zealand prime minister 1975 to 1984), but ended up being all about romance. Read more Festival guest picks and WORD Christchurch posts.We can now all read about how this warm, candid couple met at a squalid boarding house in Napier in the early 1980s and escaped to marry at ages 19 and 21 – and about what’s happened since – in Crazy Love, Rosetta’s autobiographical third novel.Search our catalogue for books by Rosetta Allan.Rosetta Allan appears at WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival in:īeyond the Veil: Historical Ghost Stories Sunday 31 August, 4pm.It was my way of saying yes to the next 25 years together. I said yes and he had a rose tattooed on his deltoid.Ģ5 years later I had the same, but smaller, rose tattooed on my wrist. My husband asked me to marry him two weeks after we met. Yes, I am particularly fond of libraries, for completely selfish reasons. How lucky I feel to be able to access so many amazing books and documentaries from such a happy place, all ordered online and delivered to my neighbourhood, and it’s all free!.That lovely shelf that has a selection of books waiting just for me, and the person next in alphabetical line to mine, who must be retired because she reads a LOT of books.The high occupancy of most available seats, by a multi cultured and age varied populace busy reading or tapping on keyboards.The happy staff – and wish I could have their job.I walk in and out of my local Mt Albert library at least twice a week. I am going to be a busy, and very happy festival attendee. Of course Diane Setterfield and Coral Atkinson in our session Beyond the Veil: Historical Ghost Stories, Sunday afternoonĪnd that’s just a handful of the artists I want to see.Lloyd Jones & co on the panel of The tough stuff.The students from the Hagley Writer’s Institute.Oh there are too many to list, but I’ll give it a try: What (or who) are you most looking forward to at WORD Christchurch? We’ve asked three quick questions of festival guests: Rosetta Allan – poet and novelist WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival kicks off on 27 August.
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