Shadows Over Paradise

✍ Scribed by Wolff, Isabel

• Book ID: 108502620
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 283 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345533180

✦ Synopsis

For readers of Kate Morton and Jamie Ford comes a captivating novel of two very different women, struggling to come to terms with the ghosts from their past--by the internationally bestselling author of A Vintage Affair and The Very Picture of You
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Sometimes the only way forward is through the past.
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Jenni Clark is a ghostwriter. She loves to immerse herself in other people's stories--a respite from her own life, and from a relationship that appears to be nearing its end. Jenni's latest assignment takes her to a coastal hamlet in England, where she's agreed to pen the memoir of an elderly farm owner named Klara. Jenni assumes the project will be easy: a quiet, ordinary tale of a life well lived.

But Klara's story is far from quiet. She recounts the tale of a family torn apart by World War II, and disgraceful acts committed against a community on the Pacific island paradise of Java. As harrowing...