# In the Garden of the Fugitives

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- Authors: [Ceridwen Dovey](https://www.bookquiver.com/ceridwen-dovey)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-244-0
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'It has been almost fifteen years. I've thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.' Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one that Vita eventually received. From opposite sides of the world, Royce and Vita enter into an adversarial dance: an attempt to settle old accounts. Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a thrilling psychological examination of what happens when the lines are blurred between victim and predator, between loyalty and obsession.