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Genie and Paul

by Natasha Soobramanien - £8.99  Myriad Editions (2012)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781908434173 | ISBN 10: 1908434171

SHORTLISTED FOR AMAZON'S RISING STARS
 
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANOBII FIRST BOOK AWARD
 
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012
 
FOYLES BEST FICTION OF 2012
 
One morning in May 2003, on the cyclone-ravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the body of a man washes up on the beach. Six weeks previously, the night Tropical Cyclone Kalunde first gathered force, destruction of another kind hit twenty-six-year-old Genie Lallan and her life in London: after a night out with her brother she wakes up in hospital to discover that he’s disappeared. Where has Paul gone and why did he abandon her at the club where she collapsed? Genie’s search for him leads her to Rodrigues, sister island to Mauritius – their island of origin, and for Paul, the only place he has ever felt at home. Will Genie track Paul down? And what will she find if she does?
 
An imaginative reworking of the French 18th century classic, Paul et Virginie, set in London, Mauritius and Rodrigues, Genie and Paul is an utterly original love story: the story of a sister’s love for a lost brother, and the story of his love for an island that has never really existed.

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