AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR Part love story, part journey
of discovery and part comedy of manners, Sue Eckstein's captivating
novel explores a disparate group of expatriates in West Africa and
their complicated ties to the country, its people and to each
other. When new diplomat Daniel Maddison arrives in Bakinabe
nothing is quite as it seems or what he imagined it would be.
Isabel Redmond is tiring of her husband's fascination with black
women's breasts; the High Commissioner and his wife, Fenella, are
both enjoying illicit affairs; an old English judge is wandering
through the scrub following a tribe of Fulani herdsmen; Bob Newpin
is about to make a killing in timeshares; and just what Father
Seamus is up to is anyone's guess. Searching for something beyond
the cocktail parties, golf and gossip, Daniel finds himself drawn
to people and places outside the experience of his High Commission
colleagues - and specifically to a dusty warehouse in the heart of
the city where a thin blonde woman is silently measuring out
lengths of brightly coloured cloth. Funny, lyrical and ultimately
redemptive, Sue Eckstein's assured debut about passion, loneliness
and being an outsider has a deliciously intricate plot, compelling
characters and razor-sharp dialogue.
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