Summary
Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteri... Full description
Summary: |
Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote Tanzanian outpost on edge. Pilgrim can't shake the feeling she's being followed. |
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Item Description: |
"Published in a slightly different form as Shame, in 2015 in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, an Hachette UK Company" -- Title page verso. |
Physical Description: |
308 pages ; 20 cm |
ISBN: |
9781937512477 |
Author Notes: |
Melanie Finn is the author of Shame which made the Not the Booker Prize 2015 shortlist, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by the public. (Bowker Author Biography) |