Eleanor Catton

Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.

A Novel

The Luminaries

Monica Cope

Walter Moody was much experienced in the art of He knew that by contessing, one carned the subtle- confessor to the other, in his turn. A secret deserves a secret, and a tale deserves a tale; the gentle expectation of a response in kond was a pressure he knew how to apply.

 As a child, he had had known instinctively that it is always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.

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