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Her first novel, the rehearsal, won the 2009 betty trask award and the adam prize in creative writing, and was longlisted for the orange prize and shortlisted for the dylan thomas prize. Book luminaries paper lanterns book wedding decor book etsy. Eleanor cattons huge neovictorian novel the luminaries is structured according to strict astrological principles. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19thcentury novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. Apr 01, 1991 ive been obsessed with astrology recently, and this book was a marvel it marries myth, psychology, and astrology.
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