An epic journey both literal and metaphorical, Eleanor Bassett
Half My Life
Diana Noonan
OneTree House
pub. 2020
30 March , 2021
Award-winning New Zealand author Diana Noonan uses her latest novel to touch delicately and with grace on the sensitive topics of fragility in families, perfection, mental health, disability, and gender and sexual identity. What a list! All these could individually be the main theme for the novel, but are woven together into a not-too-preachy or educational, but still very ‘woke’, book!
Noonan uses the storyline to ensure that the character with a physical disability is not unintentionally ‘othered’ or negatively spotlighted; in any misguided attempt to educate or normalise the idea of disability in the world around us. Read more