Our Book of the Week is one of four excellent novels short-listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 
In A Good Winter, Gigi Fenster takes us inside the head of the obsessive and judgmental Olga, whose helpfulness towards her neighbour, her neighbour's daughter and her child leads them all down a path to tragedy. Highly accomplished, the book is both sympathetic and cutting, both bleak and darkly funny, both insightful and unnerving. Olga's voice is pitch-perfect and unforgettable. 

>>Stella interviews Gigi Fenster on VOLUME T.V.

>>Read Stella's review. 

>>Putting the characters up a tree and throwing stones at them.

>>Writing a monster. 

>>Obsession, jealousy and resentment. 

>>On winning the Michael Gifkins Prize. 

>>Buy a copy of the book. 

>>Other books by Fenster. 
>>Read other books short-listed for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

>>Tell us who you think will/should win, and go in the draw to win a copy of each of the books that do.