Jennifer Trevelyan

Jennifer Trevelyan’s first book A Beautiful Family (Allen & Unwin), has sold around 30,000 copies, won notable fans such as Liane Moriarty and Hannah Kent, and had its rights bought by US and UK publishers.

‘In the utterly convincing voice and perspective of her 10-year-old narrator on the precipice of emerging knowledge and understanding, Trevelyan takes the quintessential Kiwi summer beach holiday and turns it inside out, unravelling the ties and tensions of the two sisters and their parents at its heart, along with the mystery of a young girl missing from the community where they’re staying,’ says NVA judge, Guy Somerset.