Anne Kennedy

Books on prize lists

• The Last Days of the National Costume

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2014 · Shortlist

  The Last Days of the National Costume

  The Last Days of the National Costume

  Anne Kennedy · 54 when first published

  Novel · 400 pages · Love, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:During Auckland's long power blackout of 1998, a young woman who has given up literary studies to mend clothes takes in an Irish dancing dress, and the story behind it begins to unfold.