Genie and Paul

One morning in May 2003, on the cycloneravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the body of a man washes up on the beach. Six weeks previously, destruction of another kind hits twenty-six-year-old Genie Lallan and her life in London: after a night out with her brother she wakes up in hospital to discover that he has disappeared. Genie's search for him leads her to Rodrigues, sister island to Mauritius - their island of origin, and for Paul, the only place he has ever felt at home. This compelling and elegantly wrought literary debut is an utterly original love story: the story of a sister's love for a lost brother, and the story of his love for an island that has never really existed.