When Eva is sent to the island of her childhood to photograph the bloody civil war, she faces her hardest assignment yet: her own history.

The traumas of Eva's youth resurface in the decaying house where she grew up. Desperate to escape the memories, she seeks comfort with her lover, Navahiru. But just as she seems about to come to terms with those ghosts from her past, she begins an intense affair with an American colleague, Carl, and again her life tips into chaos. As the terror on the island escalates, she discovers that nothing is as it seems, and when Navahiru is abducted, Eva must face one final, horrifying truth.

The Year of Living Dangerously meets Anil's Ghost in this novel of sexual obsession, exorcism and the search for truth in a tropical paradise, now in B-format paperback.

About the Author
Julian West is a distinguished war reporter. She has reported from Iran, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and India for the Daily Telegraph and the New York Times. She divides her time between London and New Delhi, where she was the Sunday Telegraph's correspondent. Serpent in Paradise is her first novel.

Reviews
Lyrical descriptions of the island's staggering beauty are juxtaposed with an atmosphere of steamy paranoia, sex and violence. Think The Year of Living Dangerously in literary form. -- Laura Tennant * The Fist Post *
Neatly interweaving [the] strands, West navigates currents of sexual obsession and chaos. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *
A gripping murder mystery and love story... Romantic and intense, written with impressive lyricism. * Eve *



Book Information
ISBN 9781843544487
Author Julian West
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 323g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 127mm * 26mm