DAF 22 - Reader and Writers, Christine Leunens

In Amber’s Wake

Set in New Zealand during the fast changing, tumultuous 1980s era of the anti-nuclear movement, Springbok rugby tour protests, and the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, In Amber’s Wake is a powerful and passionate novel that shows the staggering lengths some people will go to for those they love.

American-born, Frenchraised, Christine Leunens is the author of four novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her book, Caging Skies was turned into the Taika Waititi film Jojo Rabbit. The film adaptation of In Amber’s Wake, whose screenplay Christine penned, is currently being made into a motion picture, by the producer of the Academy Award-winning Thelma & Louise.

Presented in association with Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival.