Paul Harding

This Other Eden – by Paul Harding

By Patty Shlonsky on January 8, 2024

This Other Eden is a work of historical fiction based on the story of Malaga Island from the mid-1800s to 1912.

This Other Eden begins when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, shows up on an uninhabited Island with “his wife, Patience, nee Raferty, a Galway girl, in 1793.” The island was “hardly three hundred feet…

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