Name: Author Talk | Laurence Fearnley
Start: 2024-07-10T17:30:00+12:00
Location: Five Lanes at the BNZ Centre. 120 Hereford St, Christchurch, New Zealand 8011

Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Laurence Fearnley in conversation with Morrin Rout.
All welcome, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start.
This event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
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 explore her surroundings. Could the inaccessible hotel and its curious collection of staff and guests hold the key to Libby reconnecting with the person she once was?
'At the Grand Glacier Hotel' is award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley’s third novel responding to the five senses. Drawing on a varied soundscape, this tangible, moving portrait of physical and emotional recovery offers a way forward, one hopeful step at a time.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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, and, in 2008, 'Edwin and Matilda' was runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana 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 and in 2017 she was the joint winner of the Landfall essay competition. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019. She lives in Dunedin.
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ABOUT THE CHAIR:
Morrin Rout has spent over 25 years organising literary events and festivals and producing and presenting book programmes on national and local radio. She is the former Director of the Hagley Writers Institute and is a current member of the WORD festival trust board.