The Island of ForgettingWINNER of the Amazon First Novel Award Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award Finalist for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlisted for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Awards How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten? Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his fathers

who lives hard and fast

Geoffrey Kent had nothing but an East African shilling and an old Land Rover when he pioneered the luxury tent safari business in 1962 with his parents in Nairobi

from Edith Piaf to Joy Division

Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States—leaving her two children behind

\nLos dos mayores obstáculos invisibles a la conciencia de uno mismo

and suddenly…time seems to stand still

thrilling’ Will Dean

To be our best selves

In a desperate gambit to save his own skin

when alliances are fractured and the Tower is vulnerable for the first time in centuries

and it's been there for over a century

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