After her mother dies in childbirth, Madeleine is left to bring up her younger sister in a remote cottage on the west coast of Scotland. Tainted by the discovery that she is illegitimate, Madeleine is plunged into poverty in London before desperately marrying a wealthy cousin of her father's, who does not know her true identity. And thus she comes to live at the old family estate of Eden in the hills of Jamaica often talked about by her mother—a beautiful, decaying house with its overgrown garden, lush sugar plantation, and myriads of secrets.
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Michelle Paver was born in Malawi; her father was South African and her mother is Belgian. They moved to England when she was small and she was brought up in Wimbledon, where she still lives. After gaining a first in biochemistry at Oxford she became a lawyer and was until recently a partner of a large City law firm, specialising in patent litigation. She has now given up the law to write fulltime. She is the author of Without Charity and A Place in the Hills, both published by Corgi.
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Dark, mysterious Jamaica spreads out before the listener with this family saga of distrust and betrayal, which moves from the Caribbean across the Atlantic to Scotland and London, then back again over twenty years. Anna Bentinck proves a masterful reader as she deftly handles the multiple points of view of the novel's various narrators. Bentinck is excellent as a cockney teenaged street urchin or a tight-lipped parson with secrets to hide. She especially shines when assuming the personas of the Jamaican natives with their patois-accented English and sinister traditions. This love story engulfing three generations of a shattered family proves compelling from beginning to end as Bentinck creates perfect pictures with her voice. D.P.M. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Michelle Paver was born in central Africa but went to England as a child. After earning a degree in biochemistry from Oxford University, she became a partner in a London law firm but eventually gave that up to write full-time. The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series came from Michelle's lifelong passions for animals, anthropology, and the distant past-as well as an encounter with a large bear in a remote valley in Southern California. To research the books, Michelle has traveled to Finland, Greenland, Sweden, Norway, Arctic Canada, and the Carpathian Mountains. She has slept on reindeer skins, swum with wild killer whales, and gotten nose to nose with polar bears--and, of course, wolves. The first four books have been made into widely acclaimed audiobooks, read by Ian McKellen.
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This book starts off with a mother, Rose, giving birth to a daughter, Sophie. She has no help and tells her other daughter, Maddy (10), to help. Maddy is reading how to give birth from a book. After the birth, Rose dies. Meanwhile, the Father dies in battle. An unknown, very severe aunt shows up to raise the girls. 10 years later, Maddy is in Jamaica with her little sister, Sophie and their life begins...There is so much more to this book but I don't want to give it away. It's such a great read.
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