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In 1988, Kidman's novel, The Book of Secrets, received the New Zealand Book Award for fiction. Another of her works, Mrs. Dixon and Friend, was a collection of stories from 1982 that featured Brenda Dixon, a character <a class="showlessmore_link" id="u_90f2d_showmore" onclick="truncate_show('u_90f2d')" >show more</a><span class="hideme" id="u_90f2d"> who would be the central figure 15 years later in her novel, The House Within. Kidman taught creative writing at Victoria University Department of Extension and contributed an essay on writing to Mutes and Earthquakes, an anthology edited by New Zealand's Poet Laureate, Bill Manhire. She also participated in the 1997 Winnipeg Writers' Festival, and she received a $27,000 grant from Creative New Zealand in 1997 to write a novel. She received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to literature and the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters. (Bowker Author Biography)</span> <a class="hideme showlessmore_link" id="u_90f2d_showless" onclick="truncate_show('u_90f2d')" >show less</a></div><div class="author_aka tinytext"><p class="alsoknownas">Includes the names: <span id="u_cabea38c" class="lt_itemlist"><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/fionakidman&norefer=2">Fiona Kidman</a>, </span><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/compiledbydamefionak&norefer=2">Compiled by Dame Fiona Kidman</a></span></span></p></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_series" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_801c" data-caret-id="tdc_u_801c" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_b7b0" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("series", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="series" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_801c" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Series</h2><span id="tdh_u_b7b0" ><a name="series"></a><div class="worklist serieslist"><div id="u_f0e74dd4" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><a href="/nseries/65022/Memoir" class="" >Memoir</a></div></div></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_mainworks" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_9300" data-caret-id="tdc_u_9300" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_b613" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("mainworks", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="mainworks" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_9300" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Works by Fiona Kidman</h2><span id="tdh_u_b613" ><a name="mainworks"></a><div class="section_controls"><div data-value="0" class="lt_pillbox lt_blend_nav small lt_small" id="recent_pillbox" ><a data-value="0" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('kidmanfiona', 0);" role="button" class="selected" ><span class="ltp_txt">Popular</span></a class="" ><a data-value="1" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('kidmanfiona', 1);" role="button" class="" ><span class="ltp_txt">Recent</span></a class="" ></div class="" ></div><div class="worklist"><div id="u_823604fb" class="lt_itemlist list"><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/930469" data-workid="930469" data-title="The-Captive-Wife" class="" >The Captive Wife</a> <span class="date">(2005)</span> <span class="copies note">70 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 7 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/21999542" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" >This Mortal Boy</a> <span class="date">(2018)</span> <span class="copies note">62 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 5 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1014959" data-workid="1014959" data-title="The-Book-of-Secrets" class="" >The Book of Secrets</a> <span class="date">(1988)</span> <span class="copies note">54 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 3 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/14441228" data-workid="14441228" data-title="The-Infinite-Air" class="" >The Infinite Air</a> <span class="date">(2013)</span> <span class="copies note">43 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 4 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/18425648" data-workid="18425648" data-title="All-Day-at-the-Movies" class="" >All Day at the Movies</a> <span class="date">(2016)</span> <span class="copies note">30 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 4 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1903798" data-workid="1903798" data-title="Paddys-Puzzle" class="" >Paddy's Puzzle</a> <span class="date">(1983)</span> <span class="copies note">27 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 2 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/2874210" data-workid="2874210" data-title="Songs-from-the-Violet-Cafe" class="" >Songs from the Violet Cafe</a> <span class="date">(2003)</span> <span class="copies note">24 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1658943" data-workid="1658943" data-title="A-Breed-of-Women" class="" >A Breed of Women</a> <span class="date">(1979)</span> <span class="copies note">20 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1165978" data-workid="1165978" data-title="Mandarin-Summer" class="" >Mandarin Summer</a> <span class="date">(1981)</span> <span class="copies note">19 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/5266709" data-workid="5266709" data-title="At-the-End-of-Darwin-Road-A-Memoir" class="" >At the End of Darwin Road: A Memoir</a> <span class="date">(2008)</span> <span class="copies note">16 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1903795" data-workid="1903795" data-title="Ricochet-Baby" class="" >Ricochet Baby</a> <span class="date">(1996)</span> <span class="copies note">15 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 2 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/11490827" data-workid="11490827" data-title="The-Trouble-With-Fire" class="" >The Trouble With Fire</a> <span class="date">(2011)</span> <span class="copies note">15 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1974360" data-workid="1974360" data-title="The-House-Within" class="" >The House Within</a> <span class="date">(1997)</span> <span class="copies note">13 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1624527" data-workid="1624527" data-title="The-Best-New-Zealand-Fiction-Volume-1" class="" >The Best New Zealand Fiction: Volume 1</a> <span class="date">(2004)</span> — Editor — <span class="copies note">11 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/2060618" data-workid="2060618" data-title="Unsuitable-Friends-Short-Stories" class="" >Unsuitable Friends: Short Stories</a> <span class="date">(1988)</span> <span class="copies note">10 copies</span></div><div id="u_25701268" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show more" data-less="show less" data-all="show all 36" ><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/27934184" data-workid="27934184" data-title="So-Far-for-Now" class="" >So Far, for Now</a> <span class="date">(2022)</span> <span class="copies note">9 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/8603329" data-workid="8603329" data-title="Beside-the-Dark-Pool" class="" >Beside the Dark Pool</a> <span class="date">(2009)</span> <span class="copies note">8 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1903799" data-workid="1903799" data-title="True-Stars" class="" >True Stars</a> <span class="date">(1990)</span> <span class="copies note">8 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/3998749" data-workid="3998749" data-title="New-Zealand-Love-Stories-An-Oxford-Anthology" class="" >New Zealand Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology</a> <span class="date">(2000)</span> — Editor — <span class="copies note">7 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/24338492" data-workid="24338492" data-title="All-the-Way-to-Summer" class="" >All the Way to Summer</a> <span class="date">(2020)</span> <span class="copies note">7 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/851791" data-workid="851791" data-title="The-Best-of-Fiona-Kidmans-Short-Stories" class="" >The Best of Fiona Kidman's Short Stories</a> <span class="date">(1998)</span> <span class="copies note">7 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/8377622" data-workid="8377622" data-title="The-Best-New-Zealand-Fiction-Volume-3" class="" >The Best New Zealand Fiction: Volume 3</a> <span class="date">(2006)</span> — Editor — <span class="copies note">6 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/4928005" data-workid="4928005" data-title="A-Needle-in-the-Heart" class="" >A Needle in the Heart</a> <span class="date">(2002)</span> <span class="copies note">5 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/4063718" data-workid="4063718" data-title="Palm-prints" class="" >Palm prints</a> <span class="date">(1994)</span> <span class="copies note">5 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1903797" data-workid="1903797" data-title="The-Foreign-Woman" class="" >The Foreign Woman</a> <span class="date">(1993)</span> <span class="copies note">5 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/9746024" data-workid="9746024" data-title="Where-your-left-hand-rests-a-collection-of-poems" class="" >Where your left hand rests : a collection of poems</a> <span class="date">(2010)</span> <span class="copies note">4 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/18628585" data-workid="18628585" data-title="This-Change-in-the-Light-A-Collection-of-Poems" class="" >This Change in the Light : A Collection of Poems</a> <span class="date">(2016)</span> <span class="copies note">4 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1903796" data-workid="1903796" data-title="Mrs-Dixon-friend-short-stories" class="" >Mrs. Dixon & friend : short stories</a> <span class="date">(1982)</span> <span class="copies note">4 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/4662296" data-workid="4662296" data-title="Wellington" class="" >Wellington</a> <span class="date">(1989)</span> <span class="copies note">4 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/9920720" data-workid="9920720" data-title="Wakeful-nights-Poems-selected-and-new" class="" >Wakeful nights: Poems, selected and new</a> <span class="date">(1991)</span> <span class="copies note">3 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/14654711" data-workid="14654711" data-title="Gone-North" class="" >Gone North</a> <span class="date">(1984)</span> <span class="copies note">2 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/9912138" data-workid="9912138" data-title="Going-to-the-Chathams-poems-1977-1984" class="" >Going to the Chathams : poems, 1977-1984</a> <span class="date">(1985)</span> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/14404743" data-workid="14404743" data-title="On-the-Tightrope-poems" class="" >On the Tightrope: poems</a> <span class="date">(1978)</span> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/21894343" data-workid="21894343" data-title="from-Speaking-with-my-Grandmothers" class="" >from Speaking with my Grandmothers</a> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/21905774" data-workid="21905774" data-title="Speaking-With-My-Grandmothers" class="" >Speaking With My Grandmothers</a> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/22074282" data-workid="22074282" data-title="Sovereign-Mint" class="" >Sovereign Mint</a> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div></div></div></div><div class="flex_center"><a value="Work Explorer " value="Work Explorer " class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn_rollover_primary btn-lozenge extra_top_space_half btn-sm btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/author/kidmanfiona/workexplorer" ><span class="btntxt">Work Explorer <i class="fa-solid fa-angle-right"></i></span></a></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_alsoby" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_e54b" data-caret-id="tdc_u_e54b" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_d401" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("alsoby", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="alsoby" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_e54b" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Associated Works</h2><span id="tdh_u_d401" ><a name="alsoby"></a><div class="worklist"><div id="u_bcd7b161" class="lt_itemlist list"><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/1733806" data-workid="1733806" data-title="The-Picador-Book-of-Contemporary-New-Zealand-Fiction" class="" >The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction</a> <span class="date">(1996)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">32 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/2347951" data-workid="2347951" data-title="Womens-Work-Contemporary-Short-Stories-by-New-Zealand-Women" class="" >Women's Work: Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealand Women</a> <span class="date">(1986)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">27 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/187554" data-workid="187554" data-title="The-Flamingo-Anthology-of-New-Zealand-Short-Stories" class="" >The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories</a> <span class="date">(2000)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">22 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/3742090" data-workid="3742090" data-title="Goodbye-to-Romance-Stories-by-New-Zealand-and-Australian-Women-Writers-1930-1988" class="" >Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988</a> <span class="date">(1989)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">10 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/5195704" data-workid="5195704" data-title="In-Deadly-Earnest-A-Collection-of-Fiction-by-New-Zealand-Women-1870s%E2%80%931980s" class="" >In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s</a> <span class="date">(1989)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">7 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/2545283" data-workid="2545283" data-title="Nearly-Seventeen" class="" >Nearly Seventeen</a> <span class="date">(1993)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">6 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/9208900" data-workid="9208900" data-title="Second-Violins-New-Stories-Inspired-by-Katherine-Mansfield" class="" >Second Violins: New Stories Inspired by Katherine Mansfield</a> <span class="date">(2008)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">6 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/4071981" data-workid="4071981" data-title="The-Inward-Sun-Celebrating-the-Life-and-Work-of-Janet-Frame" class="" >The Inward Sun: Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame</a> <span class="date">(1994)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">6 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/8930275" data-workid="8930275" data-title="The-Penguin-Book-of-Contemporary-New-Zealand-Short-Stories" class="" >The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories</a> <span class="date">(2009)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">6 copies</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/6537521" data-workid="6537521" data-title="Yellow-pencils-contemporary-poetry-by-New-Zealand-women" class="" >Yellow pencils : contemporary poetry by New Zealand women</a> <span class="date">(1988)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">5 copies</span></div><div id="u_a3156f91" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show more" data-less="show less" data-all="show all 11" ><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/11823271" data-workid="11823271" data-title="Wellington-harbour-harp-and-hills" class="" >Wellington: harbour, harp and hills</a> <span class="date">(1993)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div></div></div></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_tags" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_5671" data-caret-id="tdc_u_5671" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_adc4" 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data-title="So-Far-For-Now" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0143775804.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0143775804.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0143775804.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/27934184" data-workid="27934184" data-title="So-Far-For-Now" class="" >So Far, For Now</a> by <a href="/author/kidmanfiona">Fiona Kidman</a></div></div><div class="" >Dame Fiona Kidman, now aged 83 years, is a revered New Zealand writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This book is a collection of snippets and short stories from her journey through life. An enjoyable read.</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_e5749f39" title="3 Stars" aria-title="3 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="6" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="5" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_257120883" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_257120883"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_257120883" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_257120883" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_257120883" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_257120883"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Carole46" target="_top">Carole46</a> | Jan 26, 2024 | <a href="/review/257120883"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_149613619" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/18425648" data-workid="18425648" data-title="All-Day-at-the-Movies" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709344.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709344.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709344.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/18425648" data-workid="18425648" data-title="All-Day-at-the-Movies" class="" >All Day at the Movies</a> by <a href="/author/kidmanfiona">Fiona Kidman</a></div></div><div class="" >Not engaging. DNF</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_2c4c83d2" title="1 Stars" aria-title="1 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="2" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="1" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_149613619" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_149613619"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_149613619" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_149613619" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_149613619" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_149613619"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/oldblack" target="_top">oldblack</a> | <a href="/work/18425648/reviews" data-workid="18425648" data-title="All-Day-at-the-Movies" class="" >3 other reviews</a> | Mar 1, 2020 | <a href="/review/149613619"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_175868344" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21999542" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/21999542" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" >This Mortal Boy</a> by <a href="/author/kidmanfiona">Fiona Kidman</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_17b944ce" >Based on a true story of one of the last executions in New Zealand, Fiona Kidman’s historical crime novel about a young man found guilty of murder is a powerful question mark. When is the death penalty justified? How does politics affect ‘blind justice’? Fundamentally, what is justice?<br>Although the novel takes place in New Zealand in late 1955, its thought-provoking issues are still germane to the United States and to the more than 50 countries where the death penalty exists today, <u class="showmore_hide">countries where more than 60 percent of the world’s population lives. <br>What’s remarkable about this book is how Kidman brings forth the issues involved, like specimens under a strong light, showing them in all their complexity, with all their shadows and brilliance, without ever preaching or becoming polemical. You are reading a compelling story, not an essay.<br>Albert Black is a young man from tension-filled, divided Belfast, who leaves his parents and younger brother to immigrate to New Zealand for a fresh start and a better life. In a bar fight, he stabs Johnny McBride, the bully who’s been tormenting him. From his Auckland jail cell he reminisces about his upbringing on the other side of the world and his life during the two years since he left Northern Ireland. The vivid descriptions of these various communities and his circumstances, as well as his actions, make him a fully rounded person. While Kidman doesn’t romanticize him, he inspires empathy.<br>He feels he’s an outsider in New Zealand. That feeling turns into grim reality when he’s on trial, and jury members hold his Irishness against him. He’s ‘not one of ours,’ the judge says. Kidman also reveals the mindset of the jurors (‘set’ being the operative word) and the high-level discussions amongst the legal establishment regarding capital punishment. <br>She skillfully uses the frame of the trial to enable comparison of retold events to witness testimony, and while there’s no doubt that Black attacked McBride, the circumstances make both the situation and the cause of death more ambiguous than they first appear or than the court ever hears. <br>Albert Black was hanged 5 December 1955, and, as Kidman says in an Afterword, “A tide of disgust against the penalty overtook public perception after the hanging of Albert Black.” When a new government took over in New Zealand in 1957, all death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, and in 1961, the death penalty was abolished.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_17b944ce');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_75637416" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="10" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="9" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_175868344" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_175868344"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_175868344" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_175868344" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_175868344" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_175868344"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Vicki_Weisfeld" target="_top">Vicki_Weisfeld</a> | <a href="/work/21999542/reviews" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" >4 other reviews</a> | Nov 26, 2019 | <a href="/review/175868344"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_175052875" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21999542" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1910709581.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/21999542" data-workid="21999542" data-title="This-Mortal-Boy" class="" >This Mortal Boy</a> by <a href="/author/kidmanfiona">Fiona Kidman</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_0f636114" >Every year the Ngaio Marsh Awards for New Zealand Crime Fiction include something that makes this reader marvel at the depth and quality of work coming out of that country. Dame Fiona Kidman came to THIS MORTAL BOY as (paraphrasing her own words) an accidental crime writer, but she has form in the central concept, where she has often recreated the past of characters, developing a fictional story based on true events or people. THIS MORTAL BOY is just such an undertaking. <br><br>Albert <u class="showmore_hide">Black was the second last person executed in New Zealand, and I believe I saw somewhere that Kidman came across his story after talking to a witness to the events that lead to his conviction (this occurred in the mid 1950's). Black was Irish, born to a desperately poor family, an immigrant to New Zealand in search of prospects and a better life. Kidman takes readers back to Black's childhood in Ireland, and most tellingly gives us a glimpse into his families anguish at the conviction and the prospect of his execution. The novel concentrates on the story of Albert Black however, so we don't get the same sort of insight into the victim Alan Keith Jacques (aka Johnny McBride). Working backwards and forwards through the past and Black's life in New Zealand, Kidman seamlessly, tellingly, compellingly, draws a picture of a young man on the cusp of life who made the sorts of choices, and therefore mistakes, that many make. <br><br>Kidman has pulled off one of those forms of novel where a true story is woven into a fictional account that doesn't play fast and loose with the truth or the ultimate outcome. A fight over a girl, leading to Black's decision to arm himself with a knife, after which an encounter with the same man who beat him the night before, turned into a single knife blow that killed his rival in love and Albert Black was ultimately executed. The build up to this event provides real insight into a febrile society. Post war, social change had arrived in New Zealand, and young people, in particular are very different. The free love, drugs and rock and roll 1960's are on the horizon, whilst 1950's bodgies and widgies subculture was thriving. The tensions around the "generation gap" were starting to be felt and there was an overwhelming belief that the younger generation were out of control. Needless to say it's a heady mix for a young Irishman from a deprived background to land into. The opportunities that present themselves on his arrival in Auckland are almost too much for him to handle, and the smack in the head that is falling in love, sends him spiralling into some really bad decision making. <br><br>Somewhere in all of this, the line between fiction and fact becomes blurred in a manner that readers unaware of all the facts of Albert Black's crimes will be hard-pressed to pick. Kidman uses a series of letters from prison, accounts of final visits with friends and switching timelines and places to draw out a story of an immensely vulnerable young man in a time that's not best suited to understanding and forgiveness. In particularly heart-breaking fashion we also see the affects of his crime, trial and punishment on his mother. Back in Ireland, desperate to get to her son, to understand what has gone so horribly wrong, the portrayal of this woman is moving. You're left considering the ease with which young men do stupid things, a sneaking suspicion that murder was too harsh a decision, and the anguish of that mother and her belief in her son; in stark contrast to comments attributed to NZ Attorney General, John Marshall, "... we could do without these deplorable migrants". Readers have no option but to pause and consider if this is really what he said, what were the implications of that attitude on the trial and sentence?<br><br>THIS MORTAL BOY is sensitively written, beautifully constructed, considered and well balanced. It carefully delivers a number of points for the reader to contemplate - lack of compassion, lack of understanding of peer pressure, overt political interference in the judicial system, and the finality of capital punishment. It's not, however, a novel that shouts moral conclusions from the rafters. Rather it lays out the story of two young men who make stupid decisions, who lack self-control and wisdom and end up in an awful place. Whether or not they both deserved to die for this is left to the reader to consider, as is the role of the state and the judiciary when it comes to careful and cautious consideration of the facts, and the right to compassion and clear moral leadership. Needless to say, THIS MORTAL BOY, is a mighty undertaking and a very worthy Ngaio Marsh Award Winner. <br><br><a href="https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/mortal-boy-dame-fiona-kidman" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/mortal-boy-dame-fiona-kidman</a></u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_0f636114');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_76360363" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="10" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="9" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_175052875" 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