Edwin and Matilda

Edwin and Matilda
Laurence Fearnley
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
29 Aug 2007 NZ
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9780143007395
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This beautifully written new novel by Laurence Fearnley is about finding love in the most unlikely of places. Set in the southern South Island, it describes the unusual friendship formed between 62-year-old photographer Edwin and 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting photographs for her wedding. Brought together, Edwin and Matilda embark on a search for Edwin's mother, a woman he has long believed dead. The journey involves a series of agonising discoveries by Edwin, about his parents and what really happened years before. Their search takes them to a former TB sanatorium, where Edwin recalls childhood days and a mother who one day walked out of his life, to Franz Josef and a sister he never knew he had, and finally to a nursing home and the discovery of his elderly mother, where the novel ends. Along the journey, Edwin and Matilda develop an intense relationship, which grows in ways neither of them could possibly have predicted. The growing, tentative intimacy between them is touching and compelling. The front cover carries an endorsement by Bill Manhire.
This is Laurence Fearnley's fifth novel and her fourth for Penguin. The others have been Delphine's Run, Butler's Ringlet and Degrees of Separation. Laurence is regarded as one of the best young writers ever to go through the Bill Manhire creative writing MA course at Victoria University. Her first novel, Room, was shortlisted for the Montana Award. She was awarded a 2004 Artists to Antarctica Fellowship. She is the 2007 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780143007395
Published: 29 Aug 2007
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Publisher: Penguin Group NZ
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 240

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