Stephanie Johnson

Books on prize lists

• The Shag Incident

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2003 · ★ Winner

  The Shag Incident

  The Shag Incident

  Stephanie Johnson · 41 when first published

  Novel · 295 pages · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:In the mid-1980s a group of Auckland women take revenge on a former All Black and bestselling author they believe to be a rapist, and years later the act still binds together lives that seem unconnected.

• Belief

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2001 · Shortlist

  Belief

  Belief

  Stephanie Johnson · 39 when first published

  Novel · 485 pages · Family, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Around 1900, after a whiskey-fuelled vision on a failing farm in the New Zealand bush, a hard-drinking settler leaves his young wife and newborn twins to search for God in America.