Baby

Cynthia, aged twenty-one, is restless and longs for her life to change; she is sure she can read Anahera's moods from her body alone. Anahera, the gym instructor she is fixated on, has had enough of her work and her husband. The pair take off with money that isn't theirs and a dog, and spend it on Baby, a run-down boat moored in the Bay of Islands, where Cynthia pictures a life of love afloat. Odd happenings on an uninhabited island then push them somewhere unexpected. A darkly comic tale of fixation and self-regard in which it is long unclear which woman holds the power.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2017

Author's age

23 when first published

ISBN

9781776561667 (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)

9781947534957 (Scribe, United States)

9781912854288 (Scribe, United Kingdom)