num_pages: 294
description: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel (Eurasia) and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Best Novel Award.A childhood mystery has haunted James Oakley all his the disappearance and unexplained death of his mother far away in India. Years later, in an attempt to unlock the past, he returns with his unhappy wife Daisy to the islands where he was born, a place of treacherous seas and hurricanes, which conceals an appalling secret.
language: English
title: Persistent rumours
titlecomplete: Persistent rumours
genres: Fiction, India
ratings_count: 37
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Milkweed