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Patricia Donovan's been an extremely prolific author of late - publishing four books since 2022, including The Collections and The Madison Gap.
Her first novel was The Remarkable Miss Digby, which imagined the later life of British aristocrat Jane Digby, who refused to conform to the expectations of her class and gender in the mid-19th century and spent her final decades in the Syrian desert. Patricia has also written a guidebook to a profession she worked in for a long time, communications. And it's from there, she's drawn inspiration for her latest novel, Rita Vegas.
Rita, the book's protagonist, finds herself dealing with a mysterious death at a Cambodian rehab centre that has echoes of an earlier incident at a public housing agency in Wellington five years before. Patricia joins Kathryn to pick up the tale.
