Island

The island is a place where things are not quite as they appear; a magical place where the murder of a reclusive woman is not a cut and dried case. 'I thought I had come to the island to wrest control of my life back from the woman who had sabotaged it. But I was wrong. My mother was still writing my plot.' Nikki Black, intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth, goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. But her plans are confounded by the discovery that she has a brother. Not just any brother but a brother strangely possessed by their mother; a brother with a terrifying violent streak; an apparent simpleton whose head is filled with the stories of past islanders, Crofters, Vikings, Little People. A brother whose dangerous love and strange way of seeing the world transform Nikki's life.

ISBN 0349112290   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780349112299 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 190 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Reprint date 21-Oct-2010 12:00:00 am Imprint Abacus   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 06 Jul 2000   Width (mm) 127 DEWEY 823.914   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

The mindscape of an intelligent young woman who has never known any kind of love is brilliantly portrayed...This is a story where there is a kind of cathartic redemption THE TIMES A novel of redemption Nicci Gerrard, OBSERVER Heart breakingly lyrical GUARDIAN Original and compelling ... 'Tempest territory'

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