Walking in the Shadow
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Quail Island, 1909. Jimmy Kokupe is the miracle man.
On a small, wind-blasted island off the east coast of New Zealand a small colony of lepers is
isolated but not abandoned, left to live out their days in relative peace thanks to the charity of
the townspeople and the compassion of the local doctor and matron of the hospital.
Jimmy Kokupe is a miracle: he's been cured. But he still carries the stigma, which makes life
back on the mainland dangerous and lonely. To find a refuge, he's returned to the camp to
care for his friend, fellow patient old Will, and disturbed young Charley.
Healed of his physical ailments and dreaming of the girl he once planned to follow to a new
life in Australia, Jimmy meets 'the lady', the island caretaker's beautiful but troubled wife
who brings their food. Can she help Jimmy forget his difficult past and overcome his own
prejudices towards his mixed parentage, and find the courage to risk living in freedom?
For fans of Victoria Hislop
Carmen Radtke
Carmen Radtke has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side. She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter. When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realized she was hooked for life. The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Carmen was born in Hamburg, Germany, but had planned on emigrating since she was five years old. She first moved to New Zealand and now lives in York, United Kingdom, with her daughter, cat, and sometimes her seafaring husband comes home.
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