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I shouldn’t really need a New Zealand passport, that being so, but to be safe, I have never given mine up. But I can do you all of Slice of Heaven, the national anthem in both languages, sundry Crowded House, the What Now theme, Rachel Hunter’s Trumpet commercial, and say The Milky Bar Kid! with the correct inflection.
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I do know all the words to Loyal – I mean, the chorus word-perfect and the verses a tiny bit mumbly because I’m 43 and can only remember verses learned pre-30. Camping in Godzone (Photo: Supplied)Īnyway, for the record, yes. I’ve literally made myself so miserable now thinking about it. The cousins, the barbecues, Vogels toast.
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It was desperate, missing our usual extended family Christmas this year, camping in Otago, the cold river swims, the birds and the very particular fragrance of New Zealand air, waking up in the tent absolutely rigid with cold because it turns out there was a wee bit of snow on the ranges overnight. For the first time since my teens, I feel a sort of acute homesickness, not just the always-underneath sense of being Somewhere Else, which comes with living elsewhere to the place you were born. I don’t know why – perhaps it’s not being allowed to come back, as we usually would twice a year, and not knowing when we will be able to next. Mason and her grandmother, Foxton, 1983 (Photo: Supplied)īut just lately, I’ve started to mind so much. I’m always described as an Australian author in the Australian press and I’ve never minded the assumption, because I left New Zealand at 16 and have lived in Sydney since, apart from five years in London. I am a New Zealander, a proper Foxton-born, Palmerston-North-raised one. Please assert your New Zealandiness for the record, eg are you a NZ citizen, do you know all the words to Loyal, do you come here often? I just didn’t have any way to incorporate the concept into my everyday life.īut know the book so well and they are so concerned for it and retaining its essence, I feel completely able to let it go and let it be theirs and their work. Perhaps if these were normal times and the negotiations had involved trips to LA and meetings with studio heads and things, it would have been a more intimidating thing or just felt more real, but it was one Zoom in the tiny shed, and once it was done, I almost put it out of my mind and didn’t tell anyone for such a long time. The fact that it found its way to a studio, the fact it will be a screen production is truly beyond my imagining. It still feels strange that it’s even a book, on someone’s shelf or in the window of a shop. Meg Mason: A year ago, Sorrow and Bliss was just a Word document, and it was just me writing in my tiny backyard shed.
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The Spinoff: Was it a big call for you to sell the movie rights? This feels like a book you might have instinctively preferred to hold close, or at least retain control of. We also emailed a few questions over the weekend here’s that chat, edited for clarity and length. We’ve been championing Sorrow and Bliss for months, publishing a review by Jean Sergent and an essay by Mason, and a big rave when the Ockhams longlist came out with her on it. Portrait of an outrageously talented and successful NZ author (Photo: Supplied) New Regency is very used to throwing around big names so who knows? Right now they’re working on films starring – and this is just a selection – Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington. No one’s talking, either, about who might star, although we reckon Anna Paquin would be brilliant as the complex, charismatic, ferociously clever lead, Martha. No one will say – yet – how much the deal was actually worth but New Regency is a big player: their long, long list of films includes The Revenant, Little Women, and Gone Girl. The book releases today in the US and Canada it’s headed for the UK in June. Sorrow and Bliss was published by HarperCollins in Australia and New Zealand in September 2020 and will be published across 21 countries and 16 translation territories including in the US and the UK after hotly contested auctions.” ‘Meg is a tremendously talented writer and we are excited to bring Sorrow and Bliss to screen,’ says Yariv Milchan, New Regency’s Chairman and CEO.