num_pages: 848
description: It is 1866 and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished a prostitute 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 ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping banking and gold rush boom and bust The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.
language: English
title: The Luminaries
publisher: Little, Brown and Company