THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN

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With beautiful blue skies, sandy beaches and glorious sunshine, the Bahamas is a slice of heaven. But in 1943, the world is at war and even paradise isn't safe ... Dodie Wyatt is a mysterious 22 year old Englishwoman with a turbulent past. She works in a fancy hotel in Downtown Nassau, but lives in a simple wooden shack on a beach. One night her tranquil life is blown apart when she finds a man stabbed in an alleyway. She tries to help him, but he dies. A short time later her lowly shack is torched. For what reason? In contrast, on the other side of Nassau among the ornate mansions of the wealthy residents, attractive Ella Stanford, 41 years old, is married to a diplomat who is part of the lavish entourage accompanying the Duke of Windsor, Governor of the Bahamas. These two very different women – Dodie, a shy introvert, and Ella, a confident socialite – are inexorably drawn together when one of the richest men in the world, Sir Harry Oakes, is found murdered in a bizarre and horrifying ritual of fire and feathers. In the highly charged atmosphere that grips the island, Ella becomes emotionally involved with the policeman whose job it is to protect her, while Dodie is caught up in a tangle of lies and threats when she is befriended by a young American stranger, Sonny McGrath. They fall in love, but he is framed for murder and Dodie turns to Ella for help. Together they are dragged into a web of deceit, greed and death. And all the time, the shadowy figure of the Duke of Windsor hovers discreetly in the background. Violence erupts and during their frantic struggle to find justice and love, the safe ordered world of Dodie and Ella is brutally torn apart. In the blinding light of the Nassau sun is there anyone left to trust? Kate Furnivall was born in Wales and studied English at London University. She worked in publishing and then moved to TV advertising, where she met her husband. In 2000, Kate decided to write her mother's extraordinary story of growing up in Russia, China and India, and this became The Russian Concubine, which was a New York Times bestseller. All her books since then have had an exotic setting and Kate has travelled widely for her research. She now has two sons and lives with her husband in a cottage by the sea in Devon.