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One island. One family. Sixty years of history.
Spanning three islands and six decades, Anaïs: A Seychelles Legend is the story of one woman's extraordinary life against the sweeping backdrop of the Indian Ocean world - from the jewel-bright harbours of colonial Mauritius and the volcanic peaks of Réunion, to the granite shores and cinnamon-scented mountains of Mahé. As Seychelles transforms around her - from a colonial backwater for exiles to a land on the verge of the jet age and independence - Anaïs transforms too, from a girl who was managed into a woman who could not be moved.
But Anaïs is only the beginning. Around her grows a family that will shape the islands for generations: a sister who spends a lifetime bringing solace to the forgotten before founding a convent at sixty; a beloved younger sister whose warmth cannot save her from a life of heartbreak and an early grave; a nephew who becomes one of the islands' most beloved priests; the son who stays, bringing his own art and music to island life; and a daughter of such radiant promise that her loss, on the very threshold of motherhood, will echo through for decades to come.