![]() ![]() Our heroine immerses herself in the island's secrets, but even the riddle of the Rongorongo script can't prevent her from interpreting the more obvious signs that her husband is up to no good with her little sister. When the National Geographic Society proposes a research trip to the South Pacific, these unlikely English adventurers find themselves on Easter Island just before the outbreak of the First World War. ![]() This novel does not pretend to solve the riddles of the island, but draws upon the many myths that have grown up around them, bringing together the stories of two women, separated by 60 years, each escaping an unhappy past.Īfter the death of her father, Elsa marries an elderly professor in return for his promise to care for her 'half-wit' sister. ![]() Easter Island has become a metaphor for ecological disaster, but for Jennifer Vanderbes it provides a symbolically fertile landscape for an ambitious first novel of survival, betrayal and destructive obsessions with the past. ![]()
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