Book description
On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is
translating Hamlet into local Pidgin English. Much to his
annoyance, his struggles with the Bard are interrupted by the arrival
of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is a young American lawyer, he
has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and he has come to help. And from
that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. For what (and who) he
finds there will challenge both his and our values and our ideas about
love, life and even death.
Bursting with good things, from the islanders themselves - with
their curious logic, strange notions about sex and addictive rendering
of English - to moments of aching sadness as much as life-affirming
farce, this exuberantly original novel confirms John Harding as one of
contemporary fiction's most entertaining and observant chroniclers of
the human condition.
John Harding was born in the Isle of Ely in 1951. After local village
and grammar schools, he read English at Oxford. He worked as a newspaper
reporter, magazine writer and editor before becoming a freelance writer.
His first novel, the bestselling
What We Did On Our Holiday
was shortlisted for the WHSmith New Talent Award. He lives in Richmond
upon Thames with his wife and two sons.
