Collects twenty years of Elizabeth Knoxnon-fiction, beginning with her 1988 essay Origins, Authority and Imaginary Games, which tells the story of her writing beginnings in childhood imaginary games played with her sisters and friends. Other autobiographical pieces deal with leaving home, working at Inland Revenue to earn money to write, and the writing and putting away of the two novels that came before her prize-winning debut, After Z-Hour, in 1987. First published November 2008, Wellington, NZ
