A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986 The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s it is the story of a young American writer David Bourne his glamorous wife Catherine and the dangerous erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean sensuous narrative...taut chic and strangely contemporary " The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard Time).
