2024
Echoes from a Path Well Travelled: DILMUN
Echoes from a Path Well Travelled: DILMUN
Bon MacLarens
Publication
About the Book
Echoes from a Path Well Travelled is a dual-narrative novel set in the Arabian Gulf in 1995. It follows a disillusioned British engineer and a trafficked Filipina domestic worker whose fates quietly converge amid corporate intrigue, veiled diplomacy, and the unravelling of personal myths. Wry, intelligent and morally layered, it blends literary fiction with slow-burn suspense — a cross between Paul Torday and Graham Greene.
Praise
"A great read, fast paced, well written with an easy writing style and a strong storyline. The characters were well brought to life and the story really drew the reader in, several good twists and enough left unspoken to leave the reader eager for more."
— Fiction Reviewer, UK
Behind the Book
This novel began with a map — specifically, a hand-drawn map of a coastline that no longer exists in the form I remembered it. The book grew outward from that original dislocation: the feeling of returning somewhere familiar and finding it changed, while knowing you have changed more.