A portrait of 1960's provincial New Zealand
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English - April 23, 2020 22:10 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mark Sweet grew up in Hawkes Bay and has drawn on his childhood and upbringing to shape his writing. After a career in property and hospitality, Mark Sweet is now writing full-time : his titles include Portrait and Opinion, and Wine:Stories from Hawke's Bay. His new novel, The History of Speech is set in 1960's provincial New Zealand. In it he examines some of the era's repression, negative undercurrents as well as some of the behaviour broke conventions, such as wife-swapping in Hastings!