The Winter Garden : [a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Writing (MCW), 2023] / Tanya Moir; supervisor: Andrew Bancroft.
The Winter Garden is a black comedy about a disadvantaged teen in foster care who sets out to steal the life of a wealthy but lazy classmate. En route to a new foster placement, eighteen-year-old Winter glimpses the embodiment of everything she yearns for in the relationship between upper-middle-cla...
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| Summary: | The Winter Garden is a black comedy about a disadvantaged teen in foster care who sets out to steal the life of a wealthy but lazy classmate. En route to a new foster placement, eighteen-year-old Winter glimpses the embodiment of everything she yearns for in the relationship between upper-middle-class mother Helen Dunbar and her daughter Emily. Finding herself enrolled at the same high school as Emily, Winter reinvents herself as a middle-class girl, befriends Emily, and begins probing the cracks she discovers in the Dunbars' mother-daughter relationship to usurp Emily's place in Helen's affections. A battle of wits between the two girls ensues. When Winter frames Emily as a methamphetamine user, Helen chooses to believe her over Emily. Emily is thrown out, and Winter moves in. But with Emily out of the way, Helen turns all her passive-aggressive attention on Winter, who discovers the price of being Helen's daughter. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access: | Embargoed until Friday, 10 July 2026. |