LOOP TRACKS

Loop Tracks by Sue Orr has been optioned by Warner Bros for development as a TV series! They expect to produce it in NZ but for an international audience. No timeline yet.

“Imagine a novel about abortion rights. Now imagine it is also a novel about addiction, euthanasia, autism, ageing, adoption, sexual assault, consent, math, primary school teaching and musical looping, set in Wellington during the Covid-19 pandemic. And imagine that it is not – as you could be forgiven for thinking from that description – too much but a powerful and elegantly structured excavation of intergenerational trauma. This is Sue Orr's Loop Tracks.” —Holly Walker, Stuff Magazine “Loop Tracks is not about imparting lessons, or Charlie learning correct attitudes. The novel respects the intensity of divergent opinions and feelings, while leaning into the unsettling questions of familial responsibility.” —Theo Macdonald, Metro “Loop Tracks is an elegant, delicately told, thoughtful story of triumph.” —Stephanie Johnson, NZ Herald “Present and past are folded over each other like parallel dimensions: there are paths and echoes, but also electric moments of contact where choices can be made. All of this in the service of a compassionate, unflinching story that flows off the page. Loop Tracks is a major achievement.” —Sam Finnemore, NZ Listener “Loop Tracks is a remarkable novel, beautifully and sensitively written, which demonstrates how the secrecy of the past may so unfairly encroach on the present.” —Paddy Richardson, Reading Room “Loop Tracks is an urgent and unexpected novel about freedom and responsibility – about a woman forced to wear her solitary and unsupported choice as a puzzling mistake, and about the very present past that she must face to help her family and herself.” — Elizabeth Knox “This fictional inter-generational story will speak to a wide readership about the choices that are important for our future.” — Dame Margaret Sparrow

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