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Reach
  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780143571728
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $38.00

Reach

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A brilliant new novel from award-winning author Laurence Fearnley, Reach is about risk-taking and the ways in which creativity, struggle and danger enrich life.

One of the reasons she was attracted to etchings was the deep, rich, black of the oily ink. A good layer of black ink was fathomless, like the sky or the sea at night. It was black as the unconscious mind, full of life but beyond reach.

Quinn is a successful artist creating new works for an upcoming exhibition. She lives on the coast with Marcus, a vet who left his wife for her and lost contact with his young daughter Audrey as a result. Entering their lives is Callum, a deep-sea diver with a love of the ocean. As the countdown to Quinn's exhibition progresses, each must face challenges and make choices that will test their loyalties and have far-reaching consequences for their future.

A brilliant novel from award-winning author Laurence Fearnley, Reach is about risk-taking and the ways in which creativity, struggle and danger empower individuals and enrich life.
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  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780143571728
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $38.00
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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

Lydia Bradey: Going Up Is Easy
Mother's Day
Edwin and Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story
Winter Time
Scented
The Hut Builder
The Quiet Spectacular
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Praise for Reach

'Readers of Fearnley will know much of what to expect: the precision in language […] her deep empathy with her characters. The characterisation is beautifully done.' —John McCrystal, NZ Listener

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