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A01=Shena Mackay
Author_Shena Mackay
award winning author
British author
British literature
British writer
Brown Book Group
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classic books
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HMM=198
IMPN=Virago Press Ltd
ISBN13=9780349007199
Language_English
Little Brown
Little Brown Book Group
London
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Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
twentieth century
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UK
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virago books
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Product details
- ISBN 9780349007199
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 352g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 30mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.
