The prisoner of paradise

Romesh Gunesekera

Original title: The Prisoner of Paradise

earliest edition we have, 2012 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012

"When Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the poems of Keats and tales of romance. She is nonetheless unprepared for the beauty, fecundity and otherness of this island paradise between Africa and India, where she is to be waited on hand and foot by servants and free to let her thoughts drift on the sea breeze. If only the...

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The Prisoner of Paradise edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 9781408830376
Prisoner of Paradise edition · 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408825679
The prisoner of paradise edition · 2012 · Windsor/Paragon · 383 pages · 9781445841359
The Prisoner of Paradise paperback · 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 388 pages · 9781408825662
The prisoner of paradise edition · 2012 · Bloomsbury · 389 pages · 9781408804261

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