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Delirious
Delirious

Delirious

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FICTION

312 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25

Formats: EPUB

EPUB, $9.99 (US $9.99) (CA $12.99)

Publication Date: November 2024

ISBN 9781776922703

Rights: NZ

Victoria University Press (Nov 2024)
Te Herenga Waka University Press

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Overview

A poignant exploration of aging, memory, and second chances in a life reimagined.

Mary, an ex-cop, and Pete, a retired librarian, embark on a new chapter in a retirement village, but their beloved house seems to hold onto the echoes of their past. As they navigate the challenges of aging—Pete's heart and Mary's aching joints—they find themselves revisiting old cases and long-held memories.

When a local detective brings forth new details about their son Will's death, a forty-year-old wound reopens, forcing Mary to confront her past. Pete grapples with haunting memories of his mother's delirium, blurring the lines between present and past. Can they piece together a life redefined by loss and change? Delirious is a powerful novel about family, aging, and the surprising ways second chances can emerge, perfect for readers of literary fiction and character-driven stories.

Author Biography

Damien Wilkins is the author of fourteen books, most recently Aspiring, winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award in 2020. His first novel, The Miserables, won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 1994, and he has been long-listed three times for the Dublin Literary Award. He received a Whiting Writers’ Award from the Whiting Foundation, New York, in 1992, and an Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Award in 2013. He is a professor at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters Te Putahi Tui Auaha o Te Ao.