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Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams, the charismatic leader of Trinidad's new national party, to whom she pours out all her hopes and fears for the future in letters that she never brings herself to send. As the years progress, George and Sabine's marriage endures for better or worse. When George discovers Sabine's cache of letters, he realises just how many secrets she's kept from him - and he from her - over the decades. And he is seized by an urgent, desperate need to prove his love for her, with tragic consequences…
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781847395221
Number of pages: 448
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm
Language: English
Atmosphere
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Correspondent
The Divorce
We All Live Here
What We Can Know
The Things We Never Say
Taiwan Travelogue
By Your Side
Yesteryear
The Eights
The Impossible Fortune
When the Cranes Fly South
The Long Shoe
This is an ok read. The first half of the book describes the relationship between a husband and wife living in Trinidad in the present and refers to the past. The second half of the book outlines the past. The first... More
I knew that I ought to be impressed by this book and from time to time I could see why it received much praise. The lush descriptions of Trinidad, the sense of corruption and violence beneath the surface of an... More
This is a must read book! Very descriptive, really makes you feel as if you are there. Couldn't put it down
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