Description
Written with the empathy and the rigorous, taut prose of a Raymond Carver, this is a moving, sometimes shocking and sometimes funny account of a girl's growing up in a divided family, moving between Trinidad and England and piecing together a sense of self.
'Amanda Smyth writes like a descendant of Jean Rhys...a born novelist' ALI SMITH
'Smyth's writing is as lushly beautiful as the landscape she describes' THE TIMES
'Like Alice Walker, Smyth vividly and empathetically re-creates gender and racial tensions' ELLE MAGAZINE
A stylish novel tackling identity and perception from the prize-winning author of Black Rock.
About the Author
Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was born in Ireland. She is the author of Black Rock (2009), A Kind of Eden (2013) and Fortune (2020). She has won the Prix du Premier Roman prize, was nominated for an NAACP award, shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Amanda teaches creative writing at Arvon, Skyros in Greece, and at Coventry University. She lives in Leamington Spa with her family.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845235895
Author Amanda Smyth
Format Paperback
Page Count 172
Imprint Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd
