Love & Money: The Writer’s Cut

Film directors get to re-release with the changes they wish they had made. That is called The Director’s Cut. Now, Greg McGee has done the same to his 2012 novel. Welcome to Love & Money: The Writer’s Cut. New Zealand is in the middle of a share-market boom, there is an election coming up, a commune with bizarre sexual activities is causing questions, and the first Rugby World Cup is on the horizon. But for a failing actor with a chaotic personal life and friends and family who seem to be succeeding where he isn’t, there are no silver linings.But this is 1987. Everybody’s world is about to fall apart.

Greg McGee is an award-winning New Zealand playwright, television screenwriter, novelist, and biographer. Coming to national attention in 1980 with his first play, Foreskin’s Lament, debuted. Centred around rugby, this play became iconic in New Zealand and garnered McGee popular acclaim. A successful screenwriter as well as playwright, his novels have also bought him awards. Winning the prestigious Ngaio Marsh Award for his debut, Cut and Run (writing as Alex Bosco), his 2015 novel, The Antipodeans, was a long-running bestseller.