Tamarin

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Tamarin Bay, Mauritius, is a travel agent's paradise: a tropical ocean, fishermen unloading their daily catch, children building sandcastles, surfers riding giant waves. But just along the shoreline is the beach of La Preneuse, known as the taker of souls. The island is haunted with tragedy and the remnants of colonial rule. But it is also home, where Anita Ram longs to be following the collapse of her marriage. After enduring a shocking betrayal and the sexism and racism of a cold Britain in the early twenty-first century, she finds comfort in simple things; her mother's cooking, her childhood bedroom, and a handsome architect. Will these be enough for Anita to find happiness again, or will the ghosts of her past consume her

Author Bio

Priya Hein is a Mauritian author whose first novel Riambel won the Prix Athna 2023 and The Jean-Fanchette Prize 2021. She was nominated for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, shortlisted for the Prix de lAtelier Littraire in 2021 and the Miles Morland Scholarship in 2023, and participated in the 2024 Iowa IWP fall residency. Priya lives in Mauritius with her family.