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Susan Hillmore is a painter and a novelist, living in Gloucestershire. She studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art. Her first novel, The Greenhouse, was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
Hillmore's contemporary fable possesses a luminous quality. On the enchanting fictional island of Mannar, unrest is simmering; once a peaceful tropical paradise, it's now a shadow of its former self because the world has casually exploited its shores. Zoologist Alexander Haye is given a rare elephant, and recruits his twin brother Max as uneasy escort on the animal's journey to the capital. But Max retreats to a secluded haven, and falls into a nightmare world of grotesque hallucination. When Alexander returns, he finds all the island's elephants dead and every vestige of civilization gone. Hillmore's richly descriptive, sensual prose conjures a powerful cautionary tale. Unquenchable, dark, and yet also full of wonder, this is the work of a fertile imagination. (Kirkus UK)
