Books by Rachael King

Rachael King is the author of two novels for adults- The Sound of Butterflies, which won the award for the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2007 Montana Book Awards and was published in 10 languages, and Magpie Hall. She has since published Red Rocks, a novel for junior readers, which won the Esther Glen Medal in the LIANZA Awards in 2013. Rachael has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the acclaimed International Institute of Modern Letters at Wellington s Victoria University. In 2008 King was the Ursula Bethell Writer in residence at Canterbury University, and she has lived in Christchurch ever since. See www.rachael-king.com, which has links to her blog and Twitter accounts. King s first novel, The Sound of Butterflies, was greeted with critical acclaim from around the world, her writing variously described as mesmerizing ... captivating (The Washington Post), rich and evocative (Financial Times, UK) and opulent (Observer, UK), and she was singled out as a writer to watch (Publishers Weekly, USA). In The New Zealand Listener, Eleanor