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Why did the princess throw the frog against the wall? A novel about a disappearance, searching for love and the power of stories.
A disappearance. An infatuation. The Frog Prince is an intriguing, multi-layered novel giving us a story, within a story, within a story.
Remember the kiss between the frog prince and the princess? What about the part where the princess angrily flings the frog against the wall?
What was that about?
At an international school in France, the young teacher Cara writes her own version of the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm. Their fairy tale is nothing like Cara's relationship with David, but when Cara disappears, can the story help David unravel what has happened?
As for the various princesses and frogs in this intriguing multi-layered novel, will any live happily ever after?
This is a stunning debut adult novel by James Norcliffe, who is renowned for his award-winning children's books and for his poems, which David Eggleton says 'invariably get us to attend more closely to the spirit of existence, to moments of being'.
About the Author
James Norcliffe is an award-winning poet, educator, editor and author of books for adults and children. He was the 2018 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow, the 2012 University of Otago College of Education Writer in Residence, the 2006 Fellow at Iowa University and the 2000 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University. In 2003, Norcliffe, with Bernadette Hall, received the inaugural Christchurch Press Literary Liaisons Honour Award for 'lasting contribution to literature in the South Island'. Norcliffe has taught English in Christchurch, China and Brunei. He won the Lilian Ida Smith Award in 1990, and the New Zealand Poetry Society's international competition in 1992. His children's fantasy novel The Assassin of Gleam won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for the best New Zealand fantasy novel of 2006, and was shortlisted for the 2007 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal.
A disappearance. An infatuation. The Frog Prince is an intriguing, multi-layered novel giving us a story, within a story, within a story.
Remember the kiss between the frog prince and the princess? What about the part where the princess angrily flings the frog against the wall?
What was that about?
At an international school in France, the young teacher Cara writes her own version of the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm. Their fairy tale is nothing like Cara's relationship with David, but when Cara disappears, can the story help David unravel what has happened?
As for the various princesses and frogs in this intriguing multi-layered novel, will any live happily ever after?
This is a stunning debut adult novel by James Norcliffe, who is renowned for his award-winning children's books and for his poems, which David Eggleton says 'invariably get us to attend more closely to the spirit of existence, to moments of being'.
About the Author
James Norcliffe is an award-winning poet, educator, editor and author of books for adults and children. He was the 2018 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow, the 2012 University of Otago College of Education Writer in Residence, the 2006 Fellow at Iowa University and the 2000 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University. In 2003, Norcliffe, with Bernadette Hall, received the inaugural Christchurch Press Literary Liaisons Honour Award for 'lasting contribution to literature in the South Island'. Norcliffe has taught English in Christchurch, China and Brunei. He won the Lilian Ida Smith Award in 1990, and the New Zealand Poetry Society's international competition in 1992. His children's fantasy novel The Assassin of Gleam won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for the best New Zealand fantasy novel of 2006, and was shortlisted for the 2007 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal.
ISBN: 9780143775492
ISBN-10: 0143775499
Published: 1st February 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE NZ
Dimensions (cm): 2.1 x 15.3 x 23.3
Weight (kg): 0.4
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