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In the late 1800s, a missionary from Mauritius is sent to a remote island in the Indian Ocean to stamp out fornication among the natives. His wife, dark-skinned, is afflicted with a curse, and when she cannot be exorcised, they send their ten-year-old son to England. There, he becomes a minister as hardhearted as his father, but he is also a poet possessed by his own demons. He ends his life wandering the halls of Bedlam.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Julia Blackburn
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