The Lotus Eaters

<p>‘A tremendously evocative debut a love story set in the hallucinatory atmosphere of war described in translucent fever-dream prose.’<br/>Janice Y. K. Lee author of the bestselling ‘The Piano Teacher’</p> <p>Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2011</p> <p>As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975 two lovers make their way through the streets desperately trying to catch one of the last planes out. Helen Adams a photojournalist must leave behind a war she has become addicted to and a devastated country she loves. Linh her lover must grapple with his own conflicting loyalties to the woman from whom he can’t bear to be parted and his country.</p> <p>Betrayal and self-sacrifice follows echoing the pattern of their relationship over the war-torn years beginning in the splendour of Angkor Wat with jaded cynical larger-than-life war correspondent Sam Darrow Helen's greatest love and fiercest competitor driven by demons she can only hope to vanquish.</p> <p>Spurred on by the need to get the truth of the war out to an international audience and the immense personal cost this carries Sam and Helen's passionate and all-consuming love is tested to the limit. This mesmerising novel carries resonance across contemporary wars with questions of love and heart-breaking betrayal interwoven with the conflict.</p>