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On the Galapagos Islands, the lives of two women-a century apart-converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent.

After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galapagos, and…

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2 authors picked Floreana as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

With a very unusual setting, intertwined storylines, and plenty of emotional conflict, this book immersed me.

The miraculous Midge Raymond has done it again. Floreana has everything I’ve come to expect in her writing, such as a vividly drawn setting that draws me in and makes me feel I have visited the place, and a deeply felt and viscerally experienced story, with human characters who come to life on the page.

Her books always feature animals, too—penguins again this time. There’s a certain amount of mystery in the book, but as always the author is most interested in—pardon the cliche—the mysteries of the human heart. And, as in My Last Continent the story contains dire warnings…

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