Beyond the Door of No Return, Paperback / softback Book

Beyond the Door of No Return Paperback / softback

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From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century SenegalParis, 1806.

The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman's name: Maram. But who was she?Searching for the answer, Adanson's daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tellsa story of wild adventure and impossible desires.

It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned.

How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.

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