Leave Before You Go
Published on 1. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-5266-8122-5 (ISBN)
Description
Finding himself quickly ensnared in the murky netherworld of drug smuggling, Daniel's life descends into a montage of casinos and grungy hotels, stuck in New Zealand when he wins and loses a fortune in one night. Grit and tenacity will be his only redemption in this illicit pressure-cooker of a world. Equally dissatisfied with her life, Kate, an usherette in Auckland, pines for an ex-boyfriend and yearns for genuine fulfilment. Their lives will become indelibly entwined.
Reviews / Votes
A swift, cinematic study of generational malaise...told with major zest and humour * Bret Easton Ellis * The funniest, sharpest depiction of postmodern twentysomething life I've read ... Perkin's prose is vitreous and concise * Time Out London * Amid the noisy chorus of twentysomething novels, Emily Perkins's distinctive voice . . . stands out for its lightness and authenticity * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-8122-5 (9781526681225)
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Emily Perkins
Leave Before You Go
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€9.49
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Person
Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton's novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.