One Minute Crying Time
May 2020 · Massey University Press
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This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence, and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s—a very different time—and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It draws heavily on the diaries she kept from the age of twelve, which lead her to some surprising conclusions about memory and truth. Ewing struggled with what would now be diagnosed as anxiety; she had a difficult relationship with her brilliant but frustrated and angry mother, and her decision to somehow learn Maori drew her into a world to which few Pakeha had access. A love affair with a young Maori man destined for greatness was complicated by society's unease about such relationships, and changed them both. Evocative, candid, brave, bright, and darting, this entrancing book takes us to a long-ago New Zealand and to enduring truths about love.
About the author
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand-born actress, novelist, and playwright. She completed a BA in New Zealand, majoring in English and Maori, and worked in the Department of Maori Affairs and as a Maori Vocational Guidance Officer. She went to London on a government-awarded bursary and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After graduating with the 1965 Gold Medal she went on to become a well-known television, film, and stage actress. She has also written nine successful novels, and has been published in twelve languages. She regularly returns home to New Zealand.
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