One morning in May 2003, on the cyclone-ravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the body of a man washes up on the beach. Six weeks previously, the night Tropical Cyclone Kalunde first gathered force, destruction of another kind hit 25-year-old Genie Lallan and her life in London: after a night out with her brother she wakes up in hospital to discover that hes disappeared. Where has Paul gone and why did he abandon her at the club where she collapsed? Genies search for him leads her to Rodrigues, sister island to Mauritius their island of origin, and for Paul, the only place he has ever felt at home. Will Genie track Paul down? And what will she find if she does?
An imaginative reworking of the French 18th century classic, Paul et Virginie, set in London, Mauritius and Rodrigues, Genie and Paul is an utterly original love story: the story of a sisters love for a lost brother, and the story of his love for an island that has never really existed.
An imaginative reworking of the French 18th century classic, Paul et Virginie, set in London, Mauritius and Rodrigues, Genie and Paul is an utterly original love story: the story of a sisters love for a lost brother, and the story of his love for an island that has never really existed.
