- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: Minnow Press (1 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0953944816
- ISBN-13: 978-0953944811
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,809,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Innocent abroad Stuart Ward becomes a backpacker in peril when he travels to French Polynesia and the island of Bora Bora as the first stop on a Round-the-World itinerary. Arriving hopeful of adventure and romance, instead Stuart is unwittingly drawn into a conspiracy to cover up a fatal road accident, and he quickly discovers that the beautiful paradise islands are no Eden. Things begin to look even more perilous for Stuart as one-by-one his co-conspirators begin to mysteriously disappear...
You may travel to the ends of the Earth, but you can never travel far enough to escape your own guilt.
About the Author
Andrew Osmond is the author of Twitcher (Minnow Press, 2001), Cat Flap and High.
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"Backpacker in Peril",
This review is from: Big Fish (Paperback)
Big Fish fits neatly into the expanding genre of 'backpacker in peril' novels, which perhaps began with Alex Garland's The Beach and which found further commercial success with Emily Barr's Backpack. Stuart Ward - the 'innocent abroad' protagonist of Osmond's novel - is far less cocksure than Garland's traveller, though, and the book as a whole provides a far more satisfying mystery than the predictable Backpack.On a Gap Year from work, Stuart arrives in French Polynesia as the first stop on a Round-the-World itinerary. Hopeful of adventure and romance, instead he finds himself unwittingly drawn into a conspiracy to cover up a fatal road accident, and he quickly discovers that the beautiful, paradise islands are no Eden. Events take an even more perilous turn for Stuart, when one-by-one his co-conspirators begin to disappear... The descriptions of the Polynesian islands - and later of New Zealand, where the dramatic climax of the story occurs - are particularly evocative, and make the reader want to immediately contact their nearest travel agent to check on the latest flight availability, but the beauty of the surroundings are countered by the ever-present threat of menace which appears to stalk the young backpacker. Parents beware! It is probably best not to know what horrors await your Gap Year travelling offspring! If there is any criticism of Big Fish it is that the basic premise of the crime is perhaps slightly too similar to that of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and also that the sub-plot, involving a thief preying on the backpackers, is a little weak - although entirely accurate, as any students or inhabitants of shared accommodation will testify - but these are minor gripes, in what is a thoroughly entertaining and intriguing novel. Andrew Osmond proves to have both a light, comic touch in his observations of the discomforts and embarrassments of travel, but also reveals a darker side, reminiscent of some of the writings of J G Ballard, when he explores the isolation associated with travelling alone in a far flung country, many thousands of miles from home. A must for wannabe globe-trotters, armchair travellers and mystery fans, alike.
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