A review by susanlawson
Dunedin by Shena Mackay

2.0

I was so disappointed when the narrative of the story switched from that of Jack Mackenzie, a Scottish minister newly arrived in New Zealand in 1909, to that of his descendents, Olive, William and Jay, living miserable existences in London of the eighties, supposedly under some curse, the effect of a stolen shruken head that Jack had taken from the home of his Maori mistress while in NZ. I really struggled with the story after that and so many of the sub-plots were left unexplained and unresolved.