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Renée

Renée is an Ōtaki author who has written numerous plays and novels. Her memoir These Two Hands was published by Makaro Press in October 2017. Renée was born in 1929 in Napier.

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Black and white portrait of an older woman wearing glasses, looking straight to camera with an assessing sort of air

Life stories: Renée on the transformative power of learning to read

View along corridor with vintage pictures on green wall, open brown wooden door to study with antique desk and chair.

Lockdown letters #28, Renée: A crime novel

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Lockdown letter #23, Renée: A wild patience

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Lockdown letters #18, Renée: 1951 and the dictator’s to-do list

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Lockdown letters #13, Renée: Suffer little children

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Lockdown letters #8, Renée: Cleaning out the store cupboard

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Rhubarb plants with red Rhubarb Stalks growing in a vegetable garden

Lockdown letters #3, Renée: Help yourself to my rhubarb

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Renée: Te Tairāwhiti blue

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Memoir: The night she left her husband for another woman

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The Mervyn Thompson Affair: ‘I was both angry and hurt at the way I’d been dumped in it by the women who were responsible for the attack’