Both Feet in Paradise

Andy Southall

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“With expert control of narrative and language, Andy Southall slowly reveals that everything is not as it seems.”
— Pip Adam, author of Nothing to See and New Animals

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About the book

“With expert control of narrative and language, Andy Southall slowly reveals that everything is not as it seems.”
— Pip Adam, author of Nothing to See and New Animals

After months of researching butterflies in Sāmoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn’t arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island – other flights, ferries, even seagoing yachts – he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overseas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well.

In a café, he meets Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he’s met her before …

Both Feet in Paradise is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a world of relentless beauty – where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself.

About the author

Andy Southall grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, spent too many years in the fog of London, and then followed the long white cloud – and his wife – to Wellington.  Always wanting to write, he completed a creative writing diploma in 2016, and won an NZSA mentorship with Pip Adam in 2018 to write Both Feet in Paradise.

He has published two travelogues: One Hundred Days in Samoa and 28 Days in Sri Lanka, and a novel, Making Meredith. His science fiction short stories have appeared in Sponge.nz

Specifications

Dimensions: 128 x 198 mm
Number of pages: 350
Binding: soft cover

Look inside

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