Edwin and Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story

by Laurence Fearnley

200 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2007

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 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.

Reviews

[Marlene Hawke · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting book. The characters felt elusive but real. There is plenty we keep hidden from others. I felt pleased they found each other and could trust each other. I was enamoured of the language. How the windscreen wipers cleared the water etc. And because I live in New Zealand it was nice to recognise the names of places and get the felling of them.