I read half on my flight to Memphis and the rest on the way back, which was helpful, because this would have been a slow read if not for that space. The plot and main characters are fascinatingly twisty, centered on a New Zealand estate that abuts a national park. The estate owners, recently knighted by the British monarch, struggle to sell their land after a deadly landslide. A radical farming collective wants the land to grow crops to give to the needy. An American billionaire wants the land, and tells everyone different reasons why. The author’s style is a little on the dry and didactic side, which I sort of remember from her first book; different chapters feature different POV characters and present more as psychological profiles than as narratives. I can see the point of that, just as I can see the point of the bleak and abrupt ending, but I don’t think I care for it.