Pansies' Revenge

<p>Can there be a righteous murder? What is the perfect crime? At what point is revenge against homophobia justified? Set in Wellington during World War I and the 1918 Spanish Flu <em>Pansies' Revenge</em> explores these questions.</p><p></p><p>The Te Aro Book Group is reading <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and becomes involved in what crime and punishment really means to queer men and lesbians pacifists and free-thinkers in a time of war and contagion. Two pro-war evangelists and virulent homophobes disappear off the streets of Wellington. For months they have been publicly vilifying pansies.</p><p></p><p><em>Pansies' Revenge</em> probes the soul and passion of a war weary city gripped by fear and highlights homophobia and its resistance in New Zealand at the time. Romance love revenge women's rights pacifism anti-intellectualism sex and gender - the novel jumps into all the issues and shows that a hundred years later we may not have changed as much as we think we have.</p>