Islands of Mercy

Islands of Mercy follows heroine Jane Adeane in Bath in 1865, an “extraordinary young woman” torn between her dangerous affair with a female lover and the promise of a conventional marriage to an apparently respectable doctor, and Sir Ralph Savage who sees his schemes in Borneo “relentlessly undermined by his own fragility, by man’s innate greed and by the invasive power of the forest itself”.

Islands of Mercy urmeaza eroinei Jane Adeane in Bath in 1865, o „tanara extraordinara” impartita intre aventura ei periculoasa cu o iubita de sex feminin si promisiunea unei casatorii conventionale cu un doctor aparent respectabil si Sir Ralph Savage care isi vede schemele in Borneo „Subminat fara incetare de propria sa fragilitate, de lacomia innascuta a omului si de puterea invaziva a padurii in sine”.