This Other Eden

`Masterful . . . has much to say to our times` Guardian `Begs to be read` Spectator `A luminous, thought-provoking novel` Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys` descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. But during one tumultuous summer at the dawn of the twentieth century, one prejudiced missionary lands on the island`s shores, disrupting the community`s fragile balance with everlasting consequences. Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding`s This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.