To herald the release of her captivating new suspense novel, The Drowning House - set on the island of Galveston, Texas - I asked author Elizabeth Banks to list her favorite stories set on islands. If you're ready for a mid-winter island getaway, escape into the pages of The Drowning House.
Islands have a way of capturing our imagination. There is something irresistible about a place set apart by nature, whether it’s lush, tropical Jamaica or the Isle of Sky in the Scottish Hebrides. The closed world of an island may be a prison or a safe haven, its landscape the setting for dramatic action or quiet contemplation. Islands are often places of discovery, whether the treasure is pirate gold or something intangible and personal.
Since Robinson Crusoe, islands have inspired novelists in very different ways. Here are two of my favorites:
To The Lighthouse,Virginia Woolf’s radiant masterpiece offers different perspectives on the life of an English family during their summers on the Isle of Skye.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of a group of school boys who find themselves alone on an island after their plane crashes. A modern classic that explores the dark side of the will to power.
Tell Me: What's your favorite island story?
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Jeremy, how right you are about Island stories, my favorite Island stories are by the women's fiction author Karen White, she writes what she describes as Grit Lit fiction-Southern Women's fiction.
Her novel Sea Change is based on St Simon's Island off the Georgia cost. It was a fabulous novel.
I'll be checking this one out too
Thank you for bringing this to us 
