One Minute Crying Time reaches down to the bases

reaches down to the bases of their arts’ — Thomas Koed

highly readable and deeply challenging

’ — Caroline Barron

oral histories and forgotten stories

One Minute Crying Time reaches down to the basesThe dazzling memoir of one of New Zealands best known actors In 1962, the young New Zealand actress Barbara Ewing left for London, to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She went on to have a distinguished career in the theatre and in television and film, and to write celebrated novels. This vivid memoir covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s. Evocative, candid