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Lioness

by Emily Perkins

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS 'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent novel' The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes.…

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"At the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Emily Perkins won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her novel Lioness , in which a wealthy woman finds her family embroiled in a corruption scandal, and is forced to evolve from “catalogue model blandness” to the predator of the title. It’s a story of female rage and a sudden unravelling."
Award-Winning Novels of 2024 · fivebooks.com