Author(s): Catherine Chidgey

NZ Fiction

Runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction, 2000 Montana NZ Book Awards. When Colette receives a letter from The Friends of Patrick Mercer, she has no idea who the man lying unconscious in a hospital on the other side of the world might be. Why is she being written to? Golden Deeds is a novel about the human desire to connect things up. It is about Patrick reconstructing his life in memory and dream. It is about Colette seeking a new life in a city she has just moved to. And it is about Ruth and Malcolm picking up the pieces of their lives after the mysterious disappearance of their daughter. Warm, compassionate, beautifully written, Golden Deeds is the second novel from one of New Zealand's most acclaimed new writers.