Beyond The Door of No Return

<p><b>From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning <i>At Night All Blood is Black</i>: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century Senegal</b><br>Paris 1806. Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. Who was she? Why in the course of his long life has he never spoken of her before?<br>As Adanson's daughter sorts through his things she discovers a notebook. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal. How Adanson first heard of the 'revenant': a young woman of noble birth abducted and sold into slavery across the seas who then did the impossible-she came back to live in hiding. How he became obsessed with finding her embarking on an odyssey that would lead to danger and destruction. How a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself faced with the uncontrollable impulses of the human heart.<br>Tragic and tender alive with feeling this is a story of adventure revenge and impossible desires one which subverts our every expectation about who we are and who we love.<br><b>Praise for <i>At Night All Blood is Black </i></b><br>'So incantatory and visceral I don't think I'll ever forget it' - Ali Smith <i>Guardian</i><br>'More than a century after World War I a great new African writer [has written] a spare yet extraordinary novel about this bloody stain on human history' - Chigozie Obioma <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br>'An extraordinary novel full of sadness rage and beauty' Sarah Waters</p>