Lloyd Jones celebrates the inspirational power of fiction in his moving story about a young girl on a war-torn island in the South Pacific
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand writer, and the author of several novels and short story collections
His novel Mister Pip was winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize best book award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007. Other novels include The Book of Fame and Hand Me Down World, which was shortlisted for the Berlin International Prize. He has also published a memoir, A History of Silence. He lives in New Zealand.