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The Cloths of Heaven

The Cloths of Heaven

Author(s): Sue Eckstein

Location(s): The Gambia, West Africa

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1990s onwards

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West Africa in the early 1990s. Daniel Maddison arrives into the milieu of miscellaneous misfits and mavericks that is the ex-pat commmunity. Rebelling against the confines of diplomatic life, Daniel is drawn towards the people and places that lie beyond the experience of his High Commission colleagues and their endless rounds of cocktail parties, golf and gossip.

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The Argus ”One of those brilliant books that offers an easy, entertaining read in the first instance, only to worm its way deeper into your mind. A modern Graham Greene fabulous…fictional gold.”

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Charming Book

Author: traveladdict

By the end of this book, I found myself charmed by the twists in the tale of Daniel’s time in West Africa. At other points the descriptions of the main, and peripheral, characters, had verged on cliches, but as...

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Great fiction set in WEST AFRICA – 1990s ex-pat life with a bit of a twist

Author: tripfiction

This novel was first published in 2009 – a first novel – The Cloths of Heaven is a definite winner… Sue Eckstein used to live in The Gambia and the book is about life in an unspecified West African...

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