The Transformation

Advance Reading Copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 306, [4]. Pink printed wraps.

Author's third novel. Winner of the Betty Trask First Book Award for her debut novel, In a Fishbone Church (1998), which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Named New Zealand's best novelist under the age of forty in 2003. The lives of a French wig-maker, a young American widow, and a Cuban cigar-maker intersect to startling effect in this masterful, atmospheric novel set in Tampa, Florida, in 1898. "A story out of Edgar Allan Poe, with the requisite revelations about human nature, obsession, and sexuality." –The Miami Herald