DunedinPenguin Random House, 1992 - 341 σελίδες Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His expulsion from his naturalist's Eden has consequences he never dreams of. Decades later, in London, his grandchildren, middle-aged and with life evaporating before them, search for love. Olive, embittered and lonely, tries to find it with Terry, an ambitious young writer in flight from his aged parents' mobile home, and more dangerously, with a baby she snatches on a crowded tube train. Her brother William, desiccated with grief for the death of a former pupil, has abandoned his job as headmaster. There is also Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage, whose sad plight to find belonging sears the heart. |
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... Miss Kettle ? ' Sandy whispered to Kitty in the cold vestry which smelled of mildewed hymn books , as their father disrobed . ' Miss Kettle fainted ! ' said their mother , but she had seen him fire the gun , as everybody must have done ...
... Miss Kettle ? ' Sandy whispered to Kitty in the cold vestry which smelled of mildewed hymn books , as their father disrobed . ' Miss Kettle fainted ! ' said their mother , but she had seen him fire the gun , as everybody must have done ...
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... Miss Kettle would be slithering about on the brown leather chair , having acquainted herself with the letters on his ... Miss Kettle , what a pleasure . but you would appear to be working up a fine head of steam . . . what seems to be ...
... Miss Kettle would be slithering about on the brown leather chair , having acquainted herself with the letters on his ... Miss Kettle , what a pleasure . but you would appear to be working up a fine head of steam . . . what seems to be ...
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... Miss Kettle ? ' he said , insulting late in the day , indicating with the casual sweep of his hand that it was of no importance which chair she chose and that he would rather she was gone . ' If the matter is of importance , Miss Kettle ...
... Miss Kettle ? ' he said , insulting late in the day , indicating with the casual sweep of his hand that it was of no importance which chair she chose and that he would rather she was gone . ' If the matter is of importance , Miss Kettle ...
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