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вЂThe car containing the four sleeping children left the earth.вЂ™ That is a perfect opening sentence, conveying both mystery and dread, an almost fairy-tale dimension (dreaming children) existing alongside the brutal image of a serious car crash on a remote road on the West Coast of the South Island in the distant 1970s. ItвЂ™s this thread that provides a poignant twist near the novelвЂ™s end, just before a final scene that takes us back to the beginning and provides a resonant conclusion. ThereвЂ™s much more, including a present day subplot involving the childrenвЂ™s aunt travelling from New Zealand to the UK in search of her family. Nixon sketches in aspects of his charactersвЂ™ lives deftly. is completely compelling and which you admire the skill of so much, the writing is very powerful. I would place it firmly amongst what's called a literature of unease so it's very ominous and very foreboding. In 2018 Carl Nixon was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in France where he worked on The Tally Stick. He was awarded the 2020 Howard McNaughton Prize at the Adam NZ Play Awards, recognising excellence in a unproduced script. He has adapted for the stage Lloyd JonesвЂ™s novel The Book of Fame and JM CoetzeeвЂ™s Disgrace. They include Mathew, Mark, Luke and Joanne, The Birthday Boy and The Raft.

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His stage plays have been produced in every professional theatre in New Zealand. His novel, The Virgin and the Whale is being developed as a feature film by South Pacific Pictures. His second novel, SettlersвЂ™ Creek, was also long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award. It has been published in China, France, and Germany and was on several lists for the best crime novels in Germany in 2012. Rocking Horse Road saw him identified as вЂa major talentвЂ™ by North & South, and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009. Nixon completed his first novel while he was the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2006. His first book, Fish вЂ™nвЂ™ Chip Shop Song and other stories went to number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth WritersвЂ™ Prize for Best First Book. He has twice won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, and won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition in 2007. How had he survived and then died? Where was the rest of his family? And what is the meaning of the tally stick? Read moreД¬arl Nixon is an award-winning short story writer, novelist and playwright.

Found alongside him are his fatherвЂ™s watch and what turns out to be a tally stick, a piece of wood scored across, marking items of debt.

In 2010 the remains of the eldest Chamberlain child have been discovered in a remote part of the West Coast, showing he lived for four years after the family disappeared. After being in the country for only five days, the Chamberlain family had vanished into the air. By that time the tracks had been washed away by the heavy rain. No other cars passed that way until after dawn. Up on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tyre tracks in the mud leading into the almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. A gripping new novel from one of our leading writers.ДЄ compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family.

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