The @newzealandbookawards has been on my radar for some time. I Google in every year to see the long list and then the winner. Unfortunately the physical books are not easy to find here in Europe (Italy, where I live). Well, for some books if we are lucky, we can download them as ebooks on kindle.
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Gigi Fenster @gigifenster is a writer from New Zealand
. She also teaches Creative Writing at University. She has previously published other 2 books: The Intention Book and Feverish. This is her third book, already a winner of a literary award, The Gifkins Prize and now also listed for the New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction.
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A Good Winter is a dark psychological thriller told from the perspective of a very lonely woman in her sixties with a difficult past history, named Olga. She develops a kind of a friendship which turns into an obsession with her neighbor, Lara. Lara's daughter, Sophie suffers from post natal depression and this difficult situation unites them.Olga offers herself to help Sophie and Lara. Olga's competence and efficiency is always needed or at least this is what she believes. Even when the situation improves and Sophie gets better, Olga continues to step in. This stalking behavior, this love obsession for Lara, and the complexities of this obsession, her need to manipulate everything and everyone.
As the story grows she completely loses touch with reality. Fenster is such a skilful writer in creating such a disturbed character and especially putting us as readers into her Mind. She has a great knowledge of the human nature and behavior. It's not easy to be in Olga's mind, I had to slow down, take a break and then come back to the story.
Olga reminds me a lot the main characters of two of the latest novels I have read The Push and Inferno.
I appreciated the ending very much, she does not tell us right away what happens, we can guess but we are never sure until the end.
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