A British diplomat drags his wife and children to the Seychelles in 1960, but it is not a paradise for all: тАЬWonderful┬а.┬а.┬а. A true page-turnerтАЭ (Joan Silber).
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When her husband, Rupert is posted to the remote Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, Penelope is less than thrilled. While her sun-kissed children run barefoot on the beach and become enraptured by the ancient magic, or grigri, in the tropical colonial outpost, Rupert falls under another kind of spellтАФcast by a local beauty who wonтАЩt stop until she gets what she wants.
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Desperate to save her marriage, Penelope turns to black magic, exposing her family to the islandтАЩs sinister underbelly. Soon, they will all find their lives forever changed, in a novel that is both a suspenseful psychological drama and тАЬan amusingly poignant look at the British abroad in the spirit of Evelyn WaughтАЭ (Publishers Weekly).
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