In Rose Tremain’s novel The Colour, Joseph Blackstone abandons his farm and family to take up this job. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this job. In another novel, a character who wants to take up this job believes he has seen the ghost of Emery Staines while sailing on the Godspeed.
ANSWER: gold prospector [or gold miner; or gold digger]
[10m] Walter Moody travels to Hokitika aboard the Godspeed in this Eleanor Catton novel structured around the zodiac.
ANSWER: The Luminaries
[10e] The Colour and The Luminaries are both set amidst this country’s gold rush. The author of “The Garden Party,” Katherine Mansfield, was from this country.
ANSWER: New Zealand [or Aotearoa]
<Hayden Prather, British Literature>