# Dunedin

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- Authors: [Shena Mackay](https://www.bookquiver.com/shena-mackay)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-04-07

## Description

FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003) 'A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by . . . ' PAUL BAILEY, INDEPENDENT 'She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel' GUARDIAN 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.

## Editions

### Dunedin

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-719-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-04-07
- Language: en_GB

### Dunedin

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4900-720-5
- Published: 2016-04-07
- Language: en_GB