The youngest ever Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton on her
novel The Luminaries
Eleanor
Catton is something of a Man Booker Prize anomaly. Not just because she is
the youngest-ever winner (Ben Okri won in 1991 aged 32), but she is assuredly
the only author in the prize’s history ever to base a book partly on
astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope. At one level, Catton’s The
Luminaries is an old-fashioned mystery. It is a pacey and beautifully
written tale of love, lust, greed and murder, following Edinburgh-born Walter
Moody trying to make his fortune during the gold rush on the west coast of
New Zealand’s South Island in 1866. At another level, however, the structure
of The Luminaries is based upon astrology. Yes, astrology. But the
tome is far more complex than Mystic Meg’s column.
Read our review of The
Luminaries here.
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