The prisoner of paradise - Romesh Gunesekera

Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt
and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this
beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is
unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions
she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a
young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming
to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island
of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty.
For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is
coming...