Hear author Laura Vincent discuss love, life and death across four generations of women in her debut novel. Described as “a Southern Gothic-via-rural South Auckland anti-tragedy,” and featuring elderly lesbians and several dogs named Roger, Hoods Landing is about shoddy pasts, ambiguous futures and the imperfect bonds that tie family together.

Laura Vincent (Ngāti Māhanga,Ngāpuhi) is an author whose work spans fiction, poetry, and food writing. Her food blog, hungryandfrozen.com, started in 2007, and her debut cookbook was published by Penguin Random House in 2013. Laura’s poetry has been published in anthologies by Āporo Press, Auckland University Press, and Muswell Press. Born in Waiuku, Laura currently lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Hoods Landing is her first novel, published by Āporo Press.

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