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    TURNING A NEW LEAF

    Mar 07, 2021 4 minutes

    On the eve of The Next Chapter bookshop’s grand opening – weeks after Auckland entered its second lockdown, and a month after the finance minister said the country was steaming towards a recession – Sally Battson and Jennifer Ainge of Wanaka worked late into the night turning their girlhood dreams into reality.

    “My very first job as a 13-year-old was in an Auckland bookshop on weekends,” says Battson. “So I really feel I’ve come full circle – after 45 years, I’m finally back in a bookshop and it’s very special.”

    Friends, family and bookish volunteers buzzed around the small store, in a shipping container-style shop in front of the iconic Cinema Paradiso. Books that had arrived by ship from London were carefully

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