'Intelligent, beautifully written'
The Times
'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author'
Stella Magazine
'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined'
Lancashire Evening Post
Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island their home. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled over eight hundred miles in search of new horizons. Hopes are high, until a vulnerable boy vanishes.
In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force young Lizzie Peacock to question her deepest convictions, and slowly this tiny, fragile community begins to fracture . . .
An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence, this will delight fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE.
- ISBN10 1471403696
- ISBN13 9781471403699
- Publish Date 21 March 2019 (first published 17 May 2018)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hot Key Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English