Author Interview: Mandy Hager
We chat to author Mandy Hager about her new novel, Strays & Waifs.
Strays & Waifs is the first part of a new chasing ghosts mystery series by Mandy Hager. A gripping Aotearoa crime thriller set on the Kāpiti Coast. The novel involves Cli-fi writer and activist Bella, who has to move in with her publicists’ elderly aunt Freyja after her writing hideaway is swallowed by a landslide. However, the lilac -eyed Freyja is not all she seems. And soon the pair are embroiled in a mystery and then a murder.
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Mandy Hager is a multi-award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and young adults. Among her many awards, Mandy was awarded the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and a distinguished contribution to New Zealand’s literature for young people.
She won both the Young Adult Fiction category and the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and her adult fiction has been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Mandy has also been the recipient of several fellowships, including the Beatson Fellowship, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, and the Waikato University Writer in Residence.
We were thrilled when Mandy took time out from her very busy schedule to discuss Strays & Waifs and we wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to her. For more information, visit Cuba Press.
This interview was done in conjunction with Caffeine and Aspirin, the arts and entertainment review show on Radioactive FM. It was conducted by host Tanya Ashcroft.
You can hear the interview and borrow Strays & Waifs, along with Mandy Hager's other titles, by following the links below.