Summary
A fascinating novel about following one’s nose …A compelling and poignant search for identity through perfume.
Granny Seren told me I had a natural talent for perfume making, and I believed her because she seemed to know what she was talking about and she never lied. It was Seren who introduced me to the idea of a signature scent.
As a university lecturer, Si n didn’t need a signature scent to know who she was. But, prompted by her job loss following restructuring of the human…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143773283 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143773283 |
| Author: | Laurence Fearnley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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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 Otepoti Dunedin.
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