Island Paradise

by Kathy Page

First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light shelf wear to the jacket, and page block and page edges are slightly tanned. Otherwise as unread. LW

Genres: Fiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

She has her BA from York (England) and her MA in writing from the University of East Anglia. A novelist and widely anthologised short-story writer, she has also written for television and radio. Her themes are loss, survival, and transformation: the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good chance. Her fifth novel, The Story of My Face, was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002, and is optioned for a feature film. The sixth, Alphabet, was nominated for a Governor General's award in 2005. Her latest title, The Find, 2010, is her first novel set in Canada: a story about discovery, inheritance and fate, and a moving exploration of the possibilities that hide within a seemingly impossible relationship.

Kathy Page has taught fiction writing at Universities in England, Finland and Estonia, and held residencies in schools and a variety of other institutions/communities, including a fishing village and a men’s prison.

She now lives in British Columbia, Canada.

Reviews

[Helena · Rating 2 out of 5]

For some reason I had difficulties to concentrate to this story. Recently I've read mainly in Finnish, perhaps this book would have been easier as a translation? After the interesting beginning the book was some kind of struggle for me.