The Sound of Butterflies
04 September 2008Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
It is 1903 when Thomas Edgar says goodbye to his young wife Sophie and embarks on a journey to the Amazon, where he dreams of finding a mythical butterfly that will make both his name and his fortune. His dreams change, however, soon after his arrival in Brazil . . .
Months later, Thomas arrives home, thin, sick and, worst...
Details
04 September 2008368 pages
9780330472708Imprint: Picador
Reviews
'The Sound of Butterflies fuses Edwardian gentility with obsession, murder and a glimpse of the giddy excess of the Brazilian rubber boom . . . Told in prose as opulent as one of Thomas’s specimens, it’s a convincing debut’ Observer
