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Serpent in Paradise

by Dea Birkett

Young Adult

1997

Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy folk who make their island even smaller by their constant presence in each others' lives.

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