An Island cover art

An Island

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

An Island

By: Karen Jennings
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £11.24

Buy Now for £11.24

LIMITED TIME OFFER

£0.99/mo for 3 months - terms apply. Offer ends 24 August 2026.
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE

Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude…

An intense and powerful novel about guilt and fear, friendship and rejection; about the meaning of home.

“A gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.” ELLEKE BOEHMER

“...a moving, transfixing novel of loss, political upheaval, history, identity, all rendered in majestic and extraordinary prose.” BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES

"Karen Jennings...is showing all the signs that she is destined for the kind of greatness achieved by Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer or Jeanette Winterson..." KARINA MAGDALENA, Cape Times©2020 Karen Jennings (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
All stars
Most relevant
What a long winded novel with nothing new to tell us. I listened to it on audible and the narrator’s voice is beautiful and deep but all the accents are strongly Nigerian. It detracts from the fact that the writer had not specified what African island it is. This was minor in the bigger, more boring scheme of things though. There are so many novels that have already told us a lot about the same subject of colonised countries with uprisings, coups, dictators and a morally questionable protagonist. The most original of its kind was A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul. Karen Jennings’ novel is a bad copy by comparison.

Pointless

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A bleak but very compassionate read.
The detail is mesmerising and it is wonderfully narrated

Not a word is wasted

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.