Tales of a southern woman back in town
Marg McCorkindale has published her second book on her life from townie to farm, to town. Photo: Supplied.
After writing her first book about her escapades as a townie thrown into farming life when she married a Southland farmer, Marg McCorkindale is now launching her second book about heading back to town.
A Southern Woman Goes to Town is a collection of short and humorous stories about life in a Queenstown menswear business that she ran with her husband Norm after moving off their Southland farm. Today, the couple are residents in the Olive Estate Lifestyle Village in Richmond and her books are about “reminiscing and humour”.
The couple moved to Queenstown in the late 80s when the town was yet to become the tourist destination it is today, and running a menswear shop was a complete change of lifestyle for both of them.
“We loved farming, but it gets to the stage you have to make some decisions. Norm was used to the farm, so it did take a bit of adjustment.”
The shop was about people and they provided plenty of entertainment. Such as the Australian customer who took a liking to the mannequin and the French shopper who refused to use the dressing room and stripped to his underwear in the shop to try on clothes.
“The book is about those incidences in the shop; short stories looking at the humorous side of the situations.”
Her book launch is being held at the Paragon Eatery on 14 November at 4pm and she says there is possibly a third book still to come.