Publisher's Synopsis
HOW TO MAKE A MILLION alternates playful and meditative moods, its subject matter shifting balance with the tilt of the mind and heart: from love and loss, to arson and whisky, to Central Otago and the heroines of nineteenth century novels, to black chickens and red oil paint, to the ebb and flow of sadness and the sensuous.It always comes back to the tricks, turns and seductions of language itself.ABOUT THE AUTHOREmma Neale, born in Dunedin, has lived in Christchurch, Wellington, London and San Diego. She has a PhD in English Literature from University College, London, and now works in Dunedin as a freelance writer and editor. In 2001 she held the Todd New Writer's Bursary. How to Make a Million follows Neale's two novels, Night Swimming (1998) and Little Moon (2001) and her first poetry collection, Sleeve-notes (1999).
