The Other Couple

Travel Guide

Travel BookTrail Style to Con Son Island

Most of the book takes place on the island. There are scenes in Ho Chi Minh city where one of the characters has ended up in hospital and that’s how the book starts. There are later ‘scenes’ in Hampshire and London but these are only as backstory and the main action and plot of the novel centres around what happens on that island.

The map concentrates on this island of hopes and dreams. In the story, its’s the setting for the Mango Tree Resort where the happy couple are having their honeymoon. It sounds idyllic:

“The sea is a sheet of silver, dotted by a few black masses that must be tiny islands. It meets the sky at a horizon so broad and clear she is sure she can make out  the curvature of the earth. Leading down to the murmuring surf is  a beach that stretches a hundred metres in both directions, bounded at each end by a spur of jungle. The sand is an ethereal, luminescent white.”