{"product_id":"the-luminaries-by-eleanor-catton","title":"The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Luminaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39592453636211,"sku":"SNG8580","price":7.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0274\/6482\/6995\/products\/Luminaries.jpg?v=1637417596","url":"https:\/\/www.books4people.co.uk\/products\/the-luminaries-by-eleanor-catton","provider":"books4people","version":"1.0","type":"link"}