NINA KILLHAM
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Nina Killham is the author of three novels: How to Cook a Tart, Mounting Desire, Believe Me. Her short story, My Wife the Hyena, was included in the Best British Short Stories 2013. A longtime wanderer, she has lived in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris, Singapore, London and now Melbourne.  She currently tutors creative writing, talks books for The School of Life and is working on her fourth novel. Mostly she obsesses about her latest passion: photographing tree bark and the streets around her home in Brunswick, Melbourne. You can see more of her bark photos at www.treegazing.com.

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Includes 'My Wife The Hyena' by Nina Killham

"Just as full of magic and imagination, but equally full of fun and secret domestic pleasures is the boldly-told My Wife the Hyena, by Nina Killham" -- The Short Review

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"Nina Killham is wickedly intelligent and her writing is succulent and true." - Jennifer Crusie

"A story of the irrefutable power of things unseen...I was stunned at this novel's assurance." - Jacqueline Mitchard, (The Deep End of the Ocean)

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"Killham's rollicking second novel cleverly sends up the romance genre while standing as a funny, romantic novel in its own right...fast paced and thoroughly enjoyable." - Publishers Weekly

"There is of course, amid all the laughter, a serious point here. Sex indeed is too much with us, in too public and too cynically commercial ways, and a bit of toning down indeed is in order. Killham makes the point deftly in this very clever, very adult novel." -- Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post


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"Wickedly funny... an expansive satire of the ways we have become pre-occupied with food." - New York Times

"Dysfunctional family melodrama, biting satire, scathing indictment, and a call to the barricade, How to Cook a Tart takes no prisoners." - Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour

"Smart, sexy, hilarious, and not to be missed." - The Washington Post

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