Amy Head

Guest writer

Amy Head’ is a Christchurch writer and the author of short story collection Tough, t winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2014. Amy was born in Papakura in 1976.

The alcohol rehab centre at Rotoroa Island in the 1960s

13th June, 2018

The drinkless isle: Why I set my novel at the rehab centre on Rotoroa Island

Christchurch writer Amy Head on the setting for her new novel – Rotoroa, an island near Waiheke, where the Salvation Army ran a rehab centre for alcoholics.