Born 1963 · New Zealand
NZ Book Awards 2025 · Shortlist
At the Grand Glacier Hotel
Laurence Fearnley · 61 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Recovering from cancer, Libby returns with her husband to a grand old hotel at the foot of Fox Glacier on New Zealand's West Coast, but a storm separates them and leaves her alone among its odd staff and guests.
NZ Book Awards 2011 · Winner
The Hut Builder
Laurence Fearnley · 47 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Nature, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In the early 1940s a boy from a small South Island town is driven over the hills into the snowy Mackenzie Country, and the sight wakes a love of mountains and words that shapes his life as a butcher and poet.
NZ Book Awards 2008 · Shortlist
Edwin and Matilda
Laurence Fearnley · 44 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In the far south of New Zealand's South Island, a sixty-two-year-old photographer, Edwin, and twenty-two-year-old Matilda form a bond that grows in ways neither of them could have foreseen.
NZ Book Awards 2001 · Shortlist
Room
Laurence Fearnley · 37 when first published
Novel · 214 pages
AI-generated summary:Amelia Walsh, a detached doctor at a Christchurch abortion clinic watched by protesters, is shaken when a fifteen-year-old Russian patient fails to turn up for her appointment in the days before Christmas.