Landfall – Landfall Review Online: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review [Book review]

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Landfall – Landfall Review Online: Aotearoa New Zealand books in review [Book review]

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Rachel O’Connor. Surplus Women by Michelle Duff (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025), 240pp, $35. There is an intrinsic irony in the title of Michelle Duff’s Surplus Women, since the women who populate the pages of the collection’s 15 stories are, far from being excess to requirements, being used—and in every sense of the word. And while many of their exploiters are men, this is by no means...

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September 1, 2025

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Rachel O’Connor

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