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Laurence Fearnley

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Laurence Fearnley


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New Zealand
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Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards and was shortlisted for the international 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain writing. Her book Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and her second novel, Room, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. Laurence Fearnley lives in Dunedin with her husband and son.

Average rating: 3.72 · 1,238 ratings · 182 reviews · 21 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Quiet Spectacular

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The Hut Builder

3.77 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Edwin + Matilda: An Unlikel...

3.95 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Winter Time

3.69 avg rating — 131 ratings4 editions
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Scented

3.62 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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At The Grand Glacier Hotel

3.50 avg rating — 119 ratings2 editions
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Reach

3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Mother's Day

3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Butler's Ringlet

3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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Degrees of Separation

3.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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“liked the simple language and that nothing much happened. It wasn’t all fancy but almost like an episode, like a summer holiday story, and”
Laurence Fearnley, The Quiet Spectacular

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