At The Grand Glacier Hotel
$29.60
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2024
Summary
Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel.
Twenty years later, Libby is recovering from cancer and the couple finally return to the resort. Except the glacier has retreated, nothing goes to plan, and after a storm separates her from Curtis, Libby finds herself alone in the isolated hotel.
Disappointed, she tentatively begins to explo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776950638 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1776950631 |
| Author: | Laurence Fearnley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Laurence Fearnley
Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist and nonfiction writer.
Her novels include:
- The Hut Builder, winner of the fiction category of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
- Room, shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
- Edwin and Matilda, runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2008.
- Reach, longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2016.
- At the Grand Glacier Hotel, shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2025.
Fearnley’s fellowships and awards include:
- Artists to Antarctica Fellowship in 2004.
- Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 2007.
- NZSA/Janet Frame Memorial Award in 2016.
- Joint winner of the Landfall Essay Competition in 2017.
- New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019.
- Artist-in-residence at Henderson House, Alexandra, in 2024-25.
- Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowship in 2026 to write the final novel in her Five Senses project.
She lives in Otepoti Dunedin.
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