Author of the bestselling memoir
The Mirror Book,
Shortlisted for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Award
Award winning author of ten works of fiction.
Including novels The Night Book and Soon, made into the hit TV series The Bad Seed. Winner of the 2018, 2019, and 2021 Voyager Media Award for Reviewer of the Year.
Columnist and reviewer for The New Zealand Listener.
Author of short stories, including Opportunity, winner of the Montana Award for Fiction, the Montana Medal for Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Frank O’ Connor International Short Story Prize and Singularity, shortlisted for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
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Jane Ussher
“Extremely well-written...a deeply affectionate portrait, but always probing and unflinching in its examination of family and self”
— The Sydney Morning Herald
“Infidelity, sexual assault, domestic violence, literary battles and a family feud... it's not a novel but award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw's explosive memoir . . . The Mirror Book is many things: an examination of memory, an exploration of psychological mysteries, a plea for understanding. But much of it is a reckoning of an existential crisis.”
— NZ Listener
“The Mirror Book, a memoir . . . is the most harrowing, profoundly moving work of her prolific career.”
— Sunday Star-Times