Lloyd Jones

About the Author

Jones was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1955, and went on to study at Victoria University of Wellington. As one of New Zealand’s foremost literary authors, he has won multiple awards, most notably the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2007 for Mister Pip. He has said that Great Expectations was the first “adult” novel he read and that it had a profound influence on his conception of literature. He has since written 15 books, including novels, story collections, and a memoir.

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Mr. Pip

Mister Pip opens with a description of the last white person left in a village on the island of Bougainville, near mainland Papua New Guinea. Fourteen-year-old Matilda, the narrator, explains that... view guide