Laurence Fearnley interview

By Siobhan Harvey In Books

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16th July, 2011
Dunedin author Laurence Fearnley should be on a high. [At the time of this interview she had] been shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction. The novel in question, The Hut Builder, tells the story of a budding mountain climber, Boden Black, his 1950s adolescence in the Mackenzie Basin and his association with influential New Zealanders such as Ed Hillary and Charles Brasch. The book is already a best-seller. The cachet of the shortlisting – Fearnley’s third where the country’s top literary prize is concerned – will surely boost The Hut Builder’s ...

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