

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Launch | Night, Ma
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am (+12:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us to launch a stunning new memoir by Elizabeth Knox, in Ngā Pou Ruahine, within the newly opened central library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. The book will be launched by Emily Perkins.

🔷 Thursday 9 April, 6pm.
🔷 Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, 65 Victoria St, Wellington.
🔷 Books will be for sale thanks to Unity Wellington.
🔷 Free entry – all welcome!

For three and a half years, calamities hit Elizabeth Knox and family in rapid succession. Her sister suffered a psychotic break and was hospitalised against her will, her husband’s brother died by violence, and her mother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. 

In time, she was able to write about it.

Night, Ma is a book about the net of family which people are held by, but also slip through. About the actual daily work of love; the physical and cognitive work love requires. 

Knox is a beloved storyteller who has given us other worlds; now she invites us into her own. With characteristic generosity and transcendence, she guides us through time, illness, loss, and the loneliness of unutterable experiences.

Night, Ma offers the gift of seeing as Elizabeth sees.

'Absolutely brilliant. This radiant, radically honest memoir pulls the pin on a sequence of domestic grenades, from the perils of semi-feral childhood to a cruelly compacted series of family crises that, like shock waves, sweep all before. Armed with inimitable wit, the consolation of cats and a forensic gaze that spares no one, least of all herself, Knox interrogates the act of caring; the ties that burn and bind, that we somehow survive.' —Diana Wichtel 

'An unforgettable record of love and pain, as wide and deep as the ocean and as mighty. There is such life in this, such wit and goodness. Telling the truth of how we are, all of us, trembling on the edge of a great and terrible mystery.' —Noelle McCarthy 

Elizabeth Knox is the bestselling author of fourteen novels, most recently the young adult novel Kings of this World, three autobiographical novellas, and a collection of personal essays, The Love School. Her best-known books are The Vintner’s Luck; YA novels Dreamhunter, Dreamquake, and Mortal Fire; and The Absolute Book. Elizabeth was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in 2020. 

Cover: Todd Atticus
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/book-launch-|-night-ma/200029859895336
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Wellington
- **state**: WG
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
- **lat**: -41.28813
- **long**: 174.77653
- **full address**: Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Public Library Building, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Te Herenga Waka University Press (https://allevents.in/org/te-herenga-waka-university-press/20986821)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am (+12:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Public Library Building, 65 Victoria St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand, Wellington
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Te Herenga Waka University Press
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Book Launch | Night, Ma ?
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