The Stirrings – Aotearoa to Sheffield: Catherine Taylor

UK writer, journalist and critic Catherine Taylor’s lushly evocative coming-of-age memoir The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time is the hauntingly atmospheric story about a young woman coming of age in the North of England in the 1970s and ’80s. It’s about the Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer whose haunting presence in Taylor’s childhood was matched only by the aching absence of her own father. But born in Waikato, New Zealand, it is just as much about Taylor’s relationship to and her memories of Aotearoa New Zealand. She joins Megan Dunn in conversation.

In partnership with the Christchurch UK Sister City Committee.