Art historian Claire suddenly decides to leave England to
take a job on an obscure tropical island in the South-China Sea, where she
finds her new exotic surroundings both fascinating and challenging. Her personal life becomes confused too -
expat banker Howard loves her but she falls for elusive Drew, an Australian aid
adviser.
Two
friends she meets have different problems.
Young American mother Deborah, unhappily married to a lecherous husband,
has a poignant affair with a teenage boy. Lucy, an unsophisticated bride, is
trying to adjust to her intimidating role at the British Embassy. The girls’ lives become intertwined and
Claire, employed to catalogue a collection of Buddhist art, accidentally finds
herself in danger when she becomes involved with the darker side of island
life.
This is a
novel about love and adjustment, independence and interdependence, about
ordinary women who have or achieve a certain courage in a different world.
Here's the new eBook/Kindle version. (hardback/paperback published 2009)
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