About the book: The Prisoner of Paradise
A lyrical, beguiling story of slavery, freedom, identity and forbidden love from
the Booker-shortlisted author of Reef
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 they did not drift to such