An interviewer once asked Margaret May “If she were transformed into her true self, what she would become?” Margaret replied, “A tall long-faced tale”. What better way to describe a legend who is widely acknowledged to be one of New Zealand's greatest writers?
Margaret Mahy is famous for her children's and young adult books and has received many literary accolades including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 – the world's most prestigious acknowledgement for excellence in children's writing. But there was much more to Margaret Mahy than that.
In this documentary we discover the real Margaret – Margaret the intellectual, Margaret the magical, Margaret the witty, the whimsical and the wicked.