Helen McNeil

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Websitehttp://www.helenmcneil.com

Twenty-five years as a psychologist lends Helen McNeil’s writing insight and compassion on the issues of human relationship. Of her two novels published by Cloud Ink Press, ‘A Striking Truth’ won the 2018 Bert Roth Labour History Award. In addition, she has published a number of short stories.

Genre:

  • Adult Fiction

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Branch:

Auckland

Location:

Auckland

Publications:

A Place to Stand

A poignant novel exploring the effects of migration on a family from the UK in the 1950s.

A Striking Truth

Leo Harris, union president at the mill in a one-industry town in the rural heartland, has a problem. "So long as I live and breathe," he says. "I'll stand up to power." But the mill's CEO insists "This was a showdown waiting to happen." It's 1986 and the entire town and its people are caught in the stalemate between the two. This story of deeply-held conflicts that brings alive a time in New Zealand's history when the very foundations of our political identity changed dramatically.