About the book: It’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband Pete, a former librarian, have decided to move into a retirement village.
Selling their beloved house should be a clean break, but the past, it seems, has other ideas. A detective calls with new information about the case of their son, Will, who died in an accident forty years earlier. Mary finds herself returning to the last months of her sister’s shortened life. And Pete is haunted by memories of his late mother, who developed delirium and never recovered.
An unforgettable novel of rare power and grace, Delirious poses the questions we all eventually face, if we are lucky - or unlucky - enough. How do we care for others? How do we face each new phase of life? And how do we ever cope?
Delirious is the award-winning, word-of-mouth New Zealand bestseller, nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and winner of New Zealand's 2025 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.
Delirious will be on sale on 6 August 2026.
About the author: Damien Wilkins is the author of fourteen books. He has won the New Zealand Book Award twice: for his first novel, The Miserables, in 1994, and for Delirious, in 2025. He has been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award four times, and is the recipient of a Whiting Award. He is a professor at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington and director of the International Institute of Modern Letters Te Pūtahi Tui Auaha o Te Ao.
Rating: 5/5
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