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Island : A Novel by Jane Rogers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Island : A Novel about?

In this “unsettling and resonant novel” by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office. The plan is simple. She'll find her mother, demand the answers she's always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, she also meets the brother she never knew she had. Calum may be simple-minded, but he is full of stories—about his island home, and about Phyllis, the manipulative herbalist who keeps him under her thumb. As Nikki changes her plans to help Calum, all three of their lives begin to unravel in this “brooding, furiously powerful tale” inspired by Shakspeare's The Tempest (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “[A] caustically memorable literary shocker... Fans of Ian McEwan should relish this stylish, charismatic addition to Britain's gallery of antiheroes.” —

Who reads Island : A Novel?

Author

Jane Rogers

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585670765

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.69 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14