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Dedication
  • Published: 2 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781776951352
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99

Dedication

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2 Feb 2027
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Dedication by Laurence Fearnley is a major new novel from one of NZ's literary greats.

‘A wonderful read! A finely observed study of women remaining faithful to their own ways of seeing.’ – Catherine Chidgey
In 1990s Christchurch, struggling artist Caro is drawn into a film project about her nineteenth-century counterpart, the painter Morag Dart.
As Caro recreates Morag's delicate watercolours for the screen, Dedication moves between the experiences of these two artists, living a century apart. Both are trying to make their mark while negotiating family, money, artistic legitimacy; both must decide what they are prepared to sacrifice for their work.
From the best-selling author of At the Grand Glacier Hotel, Dedication is Laurence Fearnley at her rich, sensory best.
  • Published: 2 February 2027
  • ISBN: 9781776951352
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Laurence Fearnley

Laurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist and nonfiction writer. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her second novel, Room, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2008. In 2016 her novel Reach was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and in 2025 At the Grand Glacier Hotel was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 she received the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. She won the NZSA/Janet Frame Memorial Award in 2016 and in 2017 was the joint winner of the Landfall Essay Competition. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019 and was artist-in-residence at Henderson House, Alexandra, in 2024–25. In 2026 she was awarded the Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowship to write the final novel in her Five Senses project. She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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Also by Laurence Fearnley

At The Grand Glacier Hotel
Winter Time
Scented
The Quiet Spectacular
Lydia Bradey: Going Up Is Easy
Reach
The Hut Builder
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