Charlotte Randall

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• The Bright Side of My Condition

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  NZ Book Awards 2014 · Shortlist

  The Bright Side of My Condition

  The Bright Side of My Condition

  Charlotte Randall

  Novel · 248 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In the early nineteenth century four convicts who have escaped the Norfolk Island penal colony are put ashore on the remote Snares Islands with a few provisions, by a captain who promises to return for them within a year.

• The Crocus Hour

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2009 · Shortlist

  The Crocus Hour

  The Crocus Hour

  Charlotte Randall

  Novel · 304 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:On Crete in the early 1980s, an unnamed narrator falls in with Henry, a New Zealander searching for his daughter, who vanished while travelling on the island with a friend.

• What Happen Then, Mr Bones?

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  NZ Book Awards 2005 · Shortlist

  What Happen Then, Mr Bones?

  What Happen Then, Mr Bones?

  Charlotte Randall

  Novel · 283 pages · Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Running backwards from Petone in 2002 to Oxford in the 1650s, the story follows generation after generation of one family, whose lives all trace back to a woman who survived her own hanging.

• The Curative

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  NZ Book Awards 2001 · Shortlist

  The Curative

  The Curative

  Charlotte Randall

  Novel · 264 pages · Historical, Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:In early nineteenth-century London a witty, apparently sane inmate of Bedlam, chained to the asylum wall, reflects on freedom and lost love as his past slowly shows how he came to be there.