Island (Rogers novel)

Island is a novel by Jane Rogers, first published in 1999. It is a contemporary novel set on an isolated Scottish island, partly inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.[1] It uses folk tales and short episodes of brutal psychological realism to describe the mental transformation of an angry young woman.

Island
First edition
AuthorJane Rogers
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLittle, Brown & Co.
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages272 pp
ISBN0-316-85153-1

The novel has been adapted for the film Island, which was released in 2011.[2][3] 2[4]

Plot summary

Nikki Black, a disturbed and hate-filled young woman intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. Her plans are confounded by the discovery that she has a brother, Calum: a brother strangely possessed by their mother; a brother with a terrifyingly violent streak; a brother whose dangerous love and strange way of seeing the world transform Nikki's life. The characters Calum and Phyllis are loosely based upon Caliban and Prospero.

Publication history
  • 1999, first published in Great Britain by Little, Brown and Company
  • 2000, first paperback edition, published by Abacus
  • 2007, republished
  • 2008, reprinted: ISBN 978-0-349-11229-9

Notes
  1. "Author interview for Houghton Mifflin, 2001". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
  2. "Scripts:Film at janerogers.org". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
  3. Finite Films: Island Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  4. IMDB: Island
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