Interview: Jane Higgins

By Sally Blundell In Books

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19th May, 2012
‘We rode to war in a taxicab” – with these memorable first words, Jane Higgins, by day an academic researcher at Lincoln University, takes her youthful occupants into a futuristic war zone where the accepted boundaries between us and them, good and bad, truth and propaganda are far less stable than they have been led to believe. The Bridge, a Young Adult fiction finalist in this year’s about-to-be-announced New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards, is narrated by Nik Stais, a Cityside teenager whose surprise failure to be selected for the prestigious Internal Security and ...

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