A fictional companion to The Villa at the Edge of the Empire and winner of the 2017 NZ Heritage Novel Award.
Fiona Farrell is one of New Zealand's leading writers. Born in
Oamaru and educated at the universities of Otago and Toronto, she
has published volumes of poetry, collections of short stories,
non-fiction works, and many novels.
Her first novel, The Skinny Louie Book, won the 1993 New Zealand
Book Award for fiction. Other novels, poetry and non-fiction books
have been shortlisted for the Montana and New Zealand Post Book
Awards with four novels also nominated for the International Dublin
IMPAC Award. In 2007 she received the Prime Minister's Award for
Fiction, and in 2012 was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand
Order of Merit for services to literature.
The Broken Book, a book of essays relating to the Christchurch
earthquakes, was shortlisted for the non-fiction award in the 2012
Book Awards and critically greeted as the 'first major artwork' to
emerge from the event. The Villa at the Edge of the Empire was also
shortlisted for this award in 2016.
Her work, which The New Zealand Herald has praised for its
'richness - of both theme and language', has been published around
the world, including in the US, France and the UK.
Beryl Fletcher praised Farrell for having '. . . the rare ability
of turning the mundane events of domestic life into profound human
experiences. Her writing is poetic, moving and literary.'
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