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seeing the light

here are challenges, and then there are 850-page Booker Prize winners set in 1860s New Zealand that explore astrology and faith, fate and science, love and death. So it’s probably no surprise that the person best placed to unravel and then reconstruct Eleanor Catton’s dense, complex epic into a six-part series was… well, Eleanor Catton.

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