The Luminaries
- Authors
- Catton, Eleanor
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Tags
- historical , mystery , contemporary , adult
- ISBN
- 9780316074315
- Date
- 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.91 MB
- Lang
- en
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute 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 ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, *The Luminaries *is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.