Isola

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in a deeply moving novel of love, faith and survival, for readers of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist and Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See.

 

About the author

Allegra Goodman is the author of six novels, including Intuition, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2009. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Sunday Times, and her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Washington Post and Boston Globe. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.  

Product details

• Authors: Goodman Allegra
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.06.2025
• EAN: 9781398549814
• ISBN: 978-1-3985-4981-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, FICTION / Literary, La Rochelle, FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Historical / Renaissance, Historical adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary, North America (USA and Canada), FICTION / Romance / Historical / Renaissance, c 1540 to c 1549, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, 1534–1763 (period of New France / Nouvelle-France)