At the Grand Glacier Hotel

Twenty years ago, after a family holiday went badly wrong, Libby and Curtis promised each other that if they ever came back to the West Coast of the South Island they would stay at the grand hotel below the ice. Now Libby is recovering from a sarcoma in her leg, and they finally make the trip. But the ice has shrunk far up the valley, their plans fall apart, and when a storm cuts her off from Curtis she is left on her own in the remote building. Disappointed, she begins warily to look around, and little by little regains her confidence and her ability to move among an unusual crowd of employees and visitors, in a world where the extinct South Island kōkako might still be alive.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

288 pages in the original

Genres

Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2024 by Penguin

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9781776950638 (Penguin, New Zealand)