What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

Alan Duff is a New Zealand columnist, advocate, businessperson and the author of 11 novels. He is best known for his bestselling 1990 novel, Once Were Warriors, which won the PEN Best First Book for Fiction Award and was made into an internationally acclaimed film, for which Duff wrote the original screenplay. He subsequently wrote two sequels, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1996), which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, and Jake's Long Shadow (2002). Other works include the novel One Night Out Stealing and a novella State Ward as well as a non-fiction book Maori: The Crisis and the Challenge. Duff lives with his wife and four children in Havelock North, New Zealand.

Michael Keir-Morrissey's stage CV ranges widely. On screen, starting with the policeman on 1972's An Awful Silence, he has played his share of authority figures. But it hasn't all been kings and cops: on Gloss, he was ex-husband of magazine baron Maxine Redfern; in Came a Hot Friday, he was "desperate drunk" Morrie Shapelski; and on Shortland Street (in one of two roles to date) Keir-Morrissey played a murderous surgeon.