Her novels have received citations for best book of the year from the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago and New York public libraries. Helen Benedict, a Columbia University professor, has written four previous novels, five nonfiction books, and a play. Helen Benedict’s acerbic wit and lush descriptions serve up a page-turner brimming with jealousy, sex, and witchcraft in a darkly exotic Eden. Ultimately, Penny and her family suffer unimaginable casualties, rendering their lives profoundly and forever changed. Rupert, meanwhile, falls under the spell of a local beauty who won’t stop until she gets what she wants.ĭesperate to save her marriage, Penelope turns to black magic, exposing her family to the island’s sinister underbelly. Her sun-kissed children run barefoot on the beach and become enraptured by the ancient magic, or grigri, in the tropical colonial outpost.
But she never imagined the danger that awaited her family there. In 1960, when her husband, Rupert, a British diplomat, is posted to the remote Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, Penelope is less than thrilled. A book that both moved and surprised me until the very last word.”-Mary Morris, author of Revenge “Reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh in its biting satire and Somerset Maugham. "A wonderful novel and a true page-turner, a vivid story."-Joan Silber, author of The Size of the World “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, author of Crows over a Wheatfield
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