Elizabeth Heritage
Crazy Love: A novel by Rosetta Allan (Penguin Random House NZ, 2021), 329pp, $36
In hindsight, the subtitle should have tipped me off: ‘A novel’. The last pukapuka I reviewed for Landfall, A Runner’s Guide to Rakiura: A novel, had the same subtitle, but in that case, it was so the reader didn’t mistake it for an actual running guide. Here, the claim to fiction is doing a lot of heavy lifting—and not very successfully. [Read more…]