"Liv is writing froma Tahitian jail, piecing together her troubled past and her family's buried history for the unknown daughter she gave up at birth. The search for her own father, an airman missing since the Korean war, has brought her to the South Seas and landed her behind bars on a trumped-up maurder charge. Liv recalls her childhood and made a discovery she made while packing up the family house after her mother's recent death: the hidden diaries of her ancestor Frank Henderson, written in the 1890s."
"En prison à Tahiti, Liv écrit à sa fille qu'elle n'a jamais vue, une lettre dans laquelle elle retrace son propre passé troublé et l'histoire de sa famille. Son ancêtre Franck Henderson a tenu un journal dans les années 1890 où il raconte sa terrifiante aventure en Afrique puis son voyage en Polynésie. Un roman sur le thème de la perte et sur un siècle d'histoire coloniale de la Grande-Bretagne."
"Imprisoned in a Tahitian jail while searching for her long-lost father, Liv attempts to reconstruct her troubled past and reflects upon the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to Tahiti with Queen Victoria's grandchildren."