The blurb says that Heaven's Edge is 'a love story set in a spoilt paradise of the near future'. This is helpful, because if one didn't know it was in the future, it would be hard to tell where it was. The obvious guess is Sri Lanka: that is where the author grew up, and where the inhabitants grow tea, coconuts and shrimps - as they do in the novel. But the island of the future is in the grip of a murderous military regime - not at all like the Sri Lanka of today.

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