Mackinac island is on the Great Lakes in the American Midwest. Just nine miles round, it has golf courses, expensive restaurants, no cars and plenty of rich people. And for the summer of 2000, it has Bell, a student, employed to serve the wealthy. Bell and her fellow waiters and waitresses sample the delights of this earthly paradise: luxurious yachts, alcohol, horse-drawn carriages; and they can't help but come to know each other intimately.
But this knowledge comes at a price. For they have each carried with them secrets from the outside world that will not be left behind...
A superb debut which offers an exquisitely distilled exploration of North american material and spiritual values - and equally - a riveting story of love, betrayal and survival.
- ISBN10 0141025840
- ISBN13 9780141025841
- Publish Date 28 February 2008 (first published 22 February 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English