Amy HeadAmy Head

Amy Head’ is a Christchurch writer and the author of short story collection Tough, t winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2014. Amy was born in Papakura in 1976.

The drinkless isle: Why I set my novel at the rehab centre on Rotoroa Island

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Christchurch writer Amy Head on the setting for her new novel – Rotoroa, an island near Waiheke, where the Salvation Army ran a rehab centre for alcoholics. When I first learned about Rotoroa, an island east of Waiheke where the Salvation Army ran a rehabilitation facility between 1911 and 2005 (known early on as an … Read more