The Night Book
"This penetrating novel treads perfectly the divide between fact and fiction."
- Sunday-Star Times
"It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton."
Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be changed forever. In the next few months there will be an election, and, if the polls are correct, Roza will become the Prime Minister's wife. She has faced the prospect with relative calm, but a chance encounter with party donor Simon Lampton sparks a chain of consequences that will bring turmoil to both their lives.
Award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw has turned her unflinching eye on contemporary New Zealand society in this intricate and elegant novel. Sharp, moving, brimming with insight and observation, The Night Book is at once a meditation on power and politics, and an intensely humane look at the choices people make as they struggle, against the odds, to maintain love and integrity in their lives.
The Night Book was a New Zealand Post Book Awards Finalist 2011
Also shortlisted for the 2009 Asia Pacific Section of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize
"Charlotte Grimshaw is writing some of the smartest fiction around." - Philip Matthews, The Dominion Post
"I rate Charlotte Grimshaw as the most important, significant and arrestingly talented of our middle year writers. I finished The Night Book with regret and am now delighted that she is continuing some of its story lines." - Christine Cole Catley
"A brilliant take on society. The Night Book's got so much going for it; narrative drive, pace, suspense and beautifully controlled seamless writing… Quite brilliant." - Nelson Mail
"This penetrating novel treads perfectly the divide between fact and fiction." - Sunday Star-Times
"A swiftly-paced, complex novel… We can look forward to seeing where Grimshaw goes from here." - Otago Daily Times
