'This is polemic touched with poetry. Benson's gift is to capturein strong visual terms the earth-based intuition of those "dropped in the sand and tuned to the rhythms of tiny island life' The Sunday Times 'The lack of adornment lends the novel the directness of a folk-tale and sharpens its sting' The Independent 'A powerful political novel which makes its case all the more forcefully for being so restrained' The Guardian
In 1971 the inhabitants of Diego Garcia, a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a place too small to find on a map and one of the last paradisical outposts of the Empire, were suddenly evicted from their homes to make way for a US military base.
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