At the 2024 Ockham NZ Book Awards, for this book, Emma (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou), was awarded one of the Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Prizes, the E H McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction, named for the late Eric McCormick, the eminent historian and biographer of Frances Hodgkins. The judges said that her “engaging, eloquent, witty and sometimes confronting memoir is an extremely impressive first book.”
Emma was our 13th writer-in-residence in 2022 when she worked on this project.