Mother's Day

by Laurence Fearnley

Life is tough for 40-year-old solo mother Maggie, a home help caregiver.  Her three children are all giving her a hard time, especially Bevan, who's in trouble with the police.  But when she's assigned a musician in a wheelchair to care for, something new enters her life. Maggie's a singer, Tim a fine guitarist.  They'll make music together, but tragedy is just around the corner.  Then it's Mother's Day, and Maggie and her family gather . . .

This touching new novel from Laurence Fearnley contains many gems of warmth, affection, love and hope. It confirms her position as one of New Zealand's finest writers.

(From Publisher).

Mother’s Day is the final novel in Laurence Fearnley’s southern trilogy. The first was Butler’s Ringlet, published in 2001. The second, Edwin and Matilda, was a runner-up for the Montana Award for fiction in 2008. Laurence’s earlier novel Room was shortlisted for the Montana Award in 2001. She has been awarded several fellowships, notably the 2004 Artists to Antarctica Fellowship, the 2006 Island of Residences fellowship in Tasmania, and the 2007 Robert Burns fellowship at the University of Otago. Laurence lives in Dunedin.