This is the kind of book you can curl up with under a blanket on a rainy weekend, with a hot choccy, and just race through. There she encounters Will, Rose’s in-home carer, who has his own secrets and reasons for being there, and together they uncover the tragedy of Jena’s past – and the evil that caused it. Along with her boyfriend Cade – who’s more interested in making a quick buck out of her dying grandmother – she returns to the Taranaki farmhouse she grew up in. It’s great to see traditional publishing promote the talent of a speculative writer like her.īutcherbird is a supernatural thriller about Jena, a down-on-her-luck 20-something in a relationship going nowhere, who is forced to come to terms with her dark family secret by the impending death of her ailing grandmother, Rose. It’s her first traditionally published novel, but by no means her first novel she’s written over ten books and novellas alongside work in various anthologies, and is a regular finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. That’s why I was so excited to read Butcherbird,by Cassie Hart (Ngāi Tahu).
Many of us rely on blogs, journals and anthologies, or pursue self-publishing to get our work out into the world, especially when it comes to speculative novels. Any speculative writer in Aotearoa knows it’s incredibly hard to get published here.
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