Luminaries questions (spoilers)

[netrate]

I have a few questions that I cannot seem to find the answer to regarding the book. There will be spoilers for sure, so please don't read this if you haven't read the book.

SPOILERS : highlight to see, I made them in a white colored font

1) Explain the significance of Moody seeing Emery in the ship bleeding and bleeding.
2) How did Carver meet his end and why?
3) Was the Seance real? There was one line that said Ah Sook told Lydia to say those things, but the rest of the observations in reading made it seem like it was real.
4) Where did Emery Staines go all that time?
5) Was Emery really behind the curtain in the real life? It seems like Anna shot herself, not the curtain. Moody's line about his story being "from the script" makes it seems otherwise.
6) Were the letters to Lauderbach from Crosbie Wells? They seem so different from the way he acted and spoke during the latter part of the book.
7) Why was George Sheppard so intent on protecting a felon like Carver?
Was there really gold buried in Maori land like Staines said?

Thank you in advance, there are more I am sure that will come to me as I think. I found it to be a frustrating book, a nice read, but frustrating. Now the frustrating also comes from the fact that there don't seem to be any nice endings and no good/bad guys, just people and a lot of injustice.

[Fran]

There is an existing topic for The Luminaries by Eleanor Cotton (I presume you are referring to the same book) you should post your questions there.

forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php ... luminaries