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2009 Longlist

Edwin and Matilda

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

I wonder why Edwin’s mother left him – why his mother left and mine stayed? I mean, which is the more damaging – the mother who tells you she loves you and leaves, or the mother who calls you stupid and stays?
This beautifully written new novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set if the southern South Island, it describes the unusual bond formed between sixty-two-year-old photographer Edwin and twenty-two-year-old Matilda, as their relationship grows in ways neither could possibly have predicted.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Laurence
Fearnley

Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. In 2014 her novel Reach was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel, Room, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. In 2016 she won the NZSA/ Janet Frame Memorial Award. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019. She lives in Dunedin.

Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. In 2014 her novel Reach was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel, Room, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. In 2016 she won the NZSA/ Janet Frame Memorial Award. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019. She lives in Dunedin.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

The story of a very unconventional relationship, that is beautifully written with realistic lovingly drawn characters.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
New Zealand
Original Language
English
Publisher
Penguin (New Zealand)

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