The Swing Around

Proof copy. 8vo. P. 303, [1 (bank)]. Glossy cream wraps, printed in black.

Nominated for the 2003 International IMPAC Literary Prize. A 'lighthearted, funny and at times improbably farcical story,' set in the populist Muldoon era, when protective tariffs ruled, in the aftermath of the UK's joining of the Common Market, which displaced New Zealand agricultural imports.

Barbara Anderson is the author of six novels, including Portrait of the Artist's Wife (winner of the 1992 Wattie Award), and two collections of short stories. Sir Dirk Bogarde called her "a quite irresistible writer with a microscopic eye for telltale details and a dazzlingly accurate ear for dialogue as it is really spoken".