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”.
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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”.