Walking in the Shadow

Written by Carmen Radtke

Narrated by Toby Webster

1909, Quail Island. On a small, wind-blasted island off the east coast of New Zealand a small colony of leprosy patients is isolated but not abandoned, left to live out their days in relative peace thanks to the charity of the townspeople and the compassion of the local doctor and matron of the hospital. Jimmy Kokupe is a miracle: he's been cured. But he still carries the stigma, which makes life back on the mainland dangerous and lonely. To find a refuge, he's returned to the camp to care for his friend, fellow patient old Will, and disturbed young Charley. Healed of his physical ailments and dreaming of the girl he once planned to follow to a new life in Australia, Jimmy meets 'the lady', the island caretaker's beautiful but troubled wife who brings their food. Can she help Jimmy forget his difficult past and overcome his own prejudices towards his mixed parentage, and find the courage to risk living in freedom?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aurora Audio Books
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781787826458

Carmen Radtke

Carmen Radtke has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side. She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter. When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realised she was hooked for life. A Matter Of Love And Death was previously published under the pen name Caron Albright. Its hero, Jack Sullivan, will soon return in ‘False Play at the Christmas Party’. When she is not writing, reading or dreaming of travel, she is busy acting as resident cat servant. She’s currently working on her first contemporary crime novel.