Sara Wheeler

A meditation on exile and the meaning of home

In a study of three 19th-century political exiles banished to remote islands, William Atkins explores ‘the nature of displacement itself’

The 40-year old Louise Michel in the uniform of the Garde Nationale. She and her five cats were met by a vast crowd in Paris on her return from exile in 1880. [Bridgeman Images]

  • Exiles: Three Island Journeys

    William Atkins

    Faber, pp. 336, £20

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