Iris and Me

Iris and Me   

New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2023

Winner of the Young Adult Fiction Award


 

So begins the story of Iris Wilkinson, who wrote poetry, novels and journalism under the pen name Robin Hyde. In January 1938, she left New Zealand for England. On the way, intrigued by glimpses of China, she ventured inland despite the war raging there, becoming one of the first women war correspondents ? a feat that was all the more remarkable because she struggled with mental health and suffered a disability that meant she had a lifelong limp. Robin Hyde dosen't tell her story ? it is narrated by a loyal but mysterious companion who asks the reader to guess the secret.