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This is a 'who-done-it' set in the goldfields of Western New Zealand in the 1860s.
Good Points:
Cleverly written - Eleanor Catton uses a non-linear approach, with shifting points of view which involves doubling back on a handful of crucial circumstances and events, seen from various perspectives.
I enjoyed the description of the frontier town lifestyle.
Negative points:
Long - about 800 pages
The astrological content of the novel seems, and probably is, obscure and entirely irrelevant
