Adultery as a theme in fiction is as old as the genre
itself, so Anthea Church, in Sleeping with Mozart
(Virago, $34.96, pbk) faces a challenge in providing her
reader with something sufficiently nuanced to lift her story
out of the common trough.
One of
New Zealand's claims to fame and an enduring source of pride
to New Zealanders is that this was the first country in the
world to give women the vote.
The harshness of
settler life in the United States is the stuff of legend, but
danger and lawlessness was not confined to the prairies and
deserts that have come to epitomise the American frontier.
