Dunedin

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, distraught at the death of a pupil, abandons his job as headmaster and struggles to fill his empty days. Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage arrives in London, looking for a place where he might belong.

Product details

• Authors: Shena Mackay, Mackay Shena
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780349007199
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00719-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary