Introducing Wonderland, the new novel by Tracy Farr, published May 2025 by The Cuba Press.
Here is a story. We can tell it to you. We saw it with our own six eyes. We heard it with our own six shell-like ears. We held it in our own six hands, so we can tell you (oh yes!).
The start of this story is the day the Lady came.
No, the start of this story is the start of us, and Wonderland.
Te Motu Kairangi Miramar Peninsula, Wellington 1912
Doctor Matti Loverock spends her days and nights bringing babies into the world, which means her daughters – seven-year-old triplets Ada, Oona and Hanna – have grown up at Wonderland, the once-thriving amusement park owned by their father, Charlie.
Then a grieving woman arrives to stay from the other side of the world, in pain and incognito, fleeing scandal. She ignites the triplets’ curiosity and brings work for Matti, diverting them all from what is really happening at Wonderland.
In a bold reimagining, Marie Curie – famous for her work on radioactivity – comes to Aotearoa and discovers both solace and wonder.
- Winner of the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize
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Festival event – Going Coastal at Featherston Booktown
The first festival outing for Wonderland – just a week after publication – will be at Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival. On Saturday 10 May I’ll be GOING COASTAL with Damien Wilkins, Mandy Hager and Mary McCallum. Find out more
Q&A with Tracy Farr – The Hope Fault, and the origins of Wonderland
Ahead of the US release of The Hope Fault, writer, editor, book blogger and ex-journalist Deborah Kalb asked Tracy to answer some questions about the novel. Deborah asked Tracy about her writing process, long-lost manuscripts, where characters come from, endings – and why Tracy’s next novel (the 2025-published Wonderland) is about triplets. Read Q&A with Tracy Farr