12 Jan 2026

Good Things Come and Go, Josie Shapiro

From Summer Times, 9:45 am on 12 January 2026

Best-selling New Zealand writer Josie Shapiro's second novel Good Things Come and Go has been met with rave reviews.Named by The Listener as one of the best books of 2025 it follows three 40 year olds who come back together after 20 years...there lives not turning out how they expected. The novel follows her highly-praised and acclaimed first novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts.

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