by Eleanor Catton - £9.99 Granta Books (2014)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781847084323 | ISBN 10: 184708432x
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
"This is a book to curl up with and devour, intricately plotted and extravagantly described, a pastiche of the Victorian sensation novel in the same smart yet playful vein as Sarah Waters."
(Guardian)
(Price & availability last checked: November 2019)
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