DunedinPenguin Random House, 1992 - 341 lappuses Rich, vivid and dazzlingly funny, Shena Mackay's brilliant novel opens in 19th century New Zealand. Jack Mackenzie, the Presbyterian minister newly arrived from Scotland with his unhappy wife, enjoys the pleasures, botanical and carnal, that Dunedin offers. His expulsion from his naturalist's Eden has consequences he never dreams of. Decades later, in London, his grandchildren, middle-aged and with life evaporating before them, search for love. Olive, embittered and lonely, tries to find it with Terry, an ambitious young writer in flight from his aged parents' mobile home, and more dangerously, with a baby she snatches on a crowded tube train. Her brother William, desiccated with grief for the death of a former pupil, has abandoned his job as headmaster. There is also Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage, whose sad plight to find belonging sears the heart. |
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97. lappuse
... round his scrawny throat , bashing and bashing his vile head against the wall . A woman's face burst round the door . ' I just want to tell you I think your notice is ageist and disgraceful ! I shall never patronise this shop again ...
... round his scrawny throat , bashing and bashing his vile head against the wall . A woman's face burst round the door . ' I just want to tell you I think your notice is ageist and disgraceful ! I shall never patronise this shop again ...
102. lappuse
... round his neck : ' Legless and Lazy . Please Help ' . Gnasher had been watchful beside him . Jay had contemplated taking the dog home , but his lead , attached to the spiked collar , had been wound tightly round Denny's senseless hand ...
... round his neck : ' Legless and Lazy . Please Help ' . Gnasher had been watchful beside him . Jay had contemplated taking the dog home , but his lead , attached to the spiked collar , had been wound tightly round Denny's senseless hand ...
216. lappuse
... round to Lorenzo's , found it packed and crossed the road to the Pizza Express , where they sat opposite each other on iron chairs at a round marble table in the bluish light , the oldest couple there . ' Well , this is cosy , ' said ...
... round to Lorenzo's , found it packed and crossed the road to the Pizza Express , where they sat opposite each other on iron chairs at a round marble table in the bluish light , the oldest couple there . ' Well , this is cosy , ' said ...
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arms Ashley asked Auntie baby Barrable bird bloody blue bottle Brockwell Park cane toads Chantal Charlene Cheryl coffee coloured Crystal Palace dark Doolally door dress Dunedin eyes face father feeling felt fingers flowers front garden girl glass grass green grey hair hand head heard heart Herne Hill house martins Jack Mackenzie Jeremy kitchen Kitty knew leaves legs Liam Lilian looked Louisa Madge Maori Michael Flannery minicab Miss Kettle morning mother mouth Myrtille never night Olive Olive's pink plastic Port Chalmers realised remembered Rosetta Rotorua round Sandy screaming shoes shortbread smell smile Snyder sorry stared stood tears Terry Turner Terry's There's things thought told took tree turned voice walked watching weeping fig What's William window woman Zealand