The sound of butterflies
By: by Rachael King
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781407405520
Subjects: Butterflies; Fiction; Collectors and collecting; Murder; Jungles; History
Description: It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition to find the mythical butterfly that will makes his name. But on his return, his wife Sophie is appalled by the change in him: his is thin, obviously sick, and apparently so traumatised by what he witnessed, he has been rendered mute. As Thomas struggles to find the words to describe what he's seen, it's unclear whether or not Sophie - and their marriage - will be able to withstand what he has to tell her, for the story that unfolds, the story behind Thomas's silence, is one of great brutality.
Notes: Originally published: New Zealand: Random House, 2006; London: Picador, 2007.