The Write Stuff - Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand author. Catton was born in Canada while her father, a New Zealand graduate, was completing a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She lived in Yorkshire until the age of 13, before her family settled in Canterbury, New Zealand. She wrote her first novel, The Rehearsal, as her master's thesis in 2009.  Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for her second novel The Luminaries.
She currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with her partner, American expatriate author and poet, Steven Toussaint.
The library recently acquired her latest novel. Click here to find out more about Eleanor Catton.