The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast 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 sum of money 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. From the author of the award-winning global phenomenon 'The Rehearsal' comes a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems. 

Winner of the Booker Prize 2013.

Victoria University Press, 2013. First published 2013. 848 pages. 

Condition: fair, used, paperback. Slight tears to binding at bottom of spine.