Dunedin
$74.61
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2016
Summary
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock.
In London, eighty years later, Jack Mackenzie’s descendants are middle-aged, searching for a way out of their loneliness. Olive, embittered with her loveless life, steals a baby from a crowded tube; William, distrau…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349007199 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349007195 |
| Author: | Shena Mackay |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose - Guardian
Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual - Independent on SundayShena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by … Her London is not a convenient backdrop - it is the capital itself, vividly and freshly set down in glancing detail - IndependentA rich feast to be enjoyed page by page as Mackay, in often dazzling prose, describes the hilarious antics of bibulous writers or, with moving lyricism, those ‘surprised by joy’ - KirkusAbout The Author
Shena Mackay
Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.
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