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Helen Benedict
Dear Librarian, When I was eight years old, I moved with my anthropologist parents to the remote Seychelles islands. The experience was magical, frightening, life-changing. It later became the impetus—and setting—for my novel, THE EDGE OF EDEN, a look at a family unraveling in a tropical paradise populated by inscrutable Creoles, decadent colonialists and honest-to-God witchdoctors. Here's what's being said about THE EDGE OF EDEN: "Helen Benedict offers us a searing, salacious and often hilarious portrait of British life abroad.... Reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh...and Somerset Maugham...Helen Benedict has written a book that both moved and surprised me until the very last word."—Mary Morris, Revenge "Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood."—Paula Sharp, Crows over a Wheatfield "THE EDGE OF EDEN uses the lush, fabulous setting of the Seychelles to give us a tale of a marriage in collapse.... It's a wonderful novel and a true page-turner, a vivid story in which jealousy, innocence, and lust each make their own mischief."—Joan Silber, The Size of the World E-mail marketing@sohopress.com to enter to win one of five signed copies of the book. Or feel free to email me at benedict.helen@gmail.com. Yours, Helen Benedic www.helenbenedict.com
The Edge of Eden / Helen Benedict / Soho Press / Hardcover; 368 Pages
Price: $25.00 / ISBN: 978-1569476024 / Published: November, 2009 Helen Benedict is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |