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Floreana

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
288 Seiten
Englisch
Amazon Publishingerscheint am01.12.2024
On the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women-a century apart-converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent.After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn´t dare tell Gavin why she´s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave-confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.In 1929, Dore Strauch left the life she knew to create a new one with the man she loved. On remote Floreana they´re beholden to no one but each other. Until the arrival of strangers, settlers in their paradise. Suddenly, Dore realizes that it´s no longer the refuge she imagined. And that amid the island´s fragile beauty, people can do the most terrible things.A gripping reimagining of a true story, Floreana intertwines the emotional journeys of two women bound by dark secrets, the want of escape, and the lengths to which they´ll go to find their place in the world.mehr
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KlappentextOn the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women-a century apart-converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent.After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn´t dare tell Gavin why she´s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave-confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.In 1929, Dore Strauch left the life she knew to create a new one with the man she loved. On remote Floreana they´re beholden to no one but each other. Until the arrival of strangers, settlers in their paradise. Suddenly, Dore realizes that it´s no longer the refuge she imagined. And that amid the island´s fragile beauty, people can do the most terrible things.A gripping reimagining of a true story, Floreana intertwines the emotional journeys of two women bound by dark secrets, the want of escape, and the lengths to which they´ll go to find their place in the world.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-6625-2512-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum01.12.2024
Seiten288 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.61485006
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Autor

Midge Raymond is the author of My Last Continent, the short-story collection Forgetting English, and, with coauthor John Yunker, the mystery novel Devils Island. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Midge has taught at Boston University, Boston's GrubStreet Writers, Seattle's Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is cofounder of the boutique environmental publisher Ashland Creek Press. For more information, visit http: //midgeraymond.com.