TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grimshaw,Charlotte
AU  - Grimshaw,Charlotte
AU  - Grimshaw,Charlotte
TI  - The bad seed
SN  - 9780143773764
U1  - NZ823.2 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Auckland
PB  - Penguin Random House New Zealand
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Politics
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Suspense fiction
N1  - "An omnibus edition combining the ... novels 'The night book' and 'Soon'"--Publisher information; "Two highly acclaimed novels. The night book and Soon now a major TV series."--Cover; Now a major TV drama, these two connected novels by award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw take an unflinching look at politics and power, contemporary New Zealand society and the arid morality of the privileged.; The night book -- Soon
N2  - In The Night Book, doctor and party donor Simon Lampton is drawn to Roza Hallwright, though he can't quite put his finger on why. She leads a quiet, comfortable, orderly life 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 is relatively calm about the prospect, but meeting Simon will bring turmoil to both their lives; In Soon, the Lampton family has come to spend a long hot summer at the Hallwrights large beach house. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton's brother Ford arrives for a visit. Ford casts a cold eye over the company, barely disguising his contempt for David Hallwright. While Roza tells her young son made-up stories that reveal uncomfortable truths about their current lives, Simon will tell stories that conceal the truth about his.Gripping, clever and moving, these two novels are an intensely humane look at the choices people make
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