Darkness Falls in Jakarta

The death of Claire's parents triggers troubled memories of her past life in Jakarta, a time that Claire has been running away from her whole life. Haunted by guilt and the terrible misunderstandings and accusations that forced her to leave the city as a teenager, she decides to travel back in the hope of finding answers and perhaps forgiveness. Is confronting her past the key to her deliverance? Beautifully written, with sumptuous and enchanting descriptions of Indonesia, this is a novel that completely transports you to a specific time and place and perfectly portrays that shared sense of guilt in all of us about mistakes or inactions of the past.

Louise Soraya Black is English and Iranian and has lived all over the world. She worked as a lawyer in London for 7 years before publishing her debut novel, Pomegranate Sky which won the inaugural Virginia Prize in 2009. Her second novel, The Water Garden was published to acclaim in 2021. She lives with her family in Ibiza.