An atmospheric pageturner
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This book has just about everything going for it - well-written prose, rounded characters, an intriguing plot and an almost haunting sense of atmosphere. We are drawn into the rotting world of the "bagne" - a convicts' prison in the untameable jungle of French Guiana, and into the shifting memories of the protagonists. Not only does Wilcken skillfully interweave his themes of identity, class and unstoppable decay but he manages to keep the plot taught throughout. The result is an evocative, unputdownable read.
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