She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. Kerry Young's heartfelt, sparky and affecting debut novel is a chronicle of multicultural Jamaica, both in its cultural richness and in its strife and tensions' - Guardian 'A pacy but absorbing saga of domestic struggle and gangland manoeuvring set against the violent backdrop of postwar Jamaican politics' - Independent on Sunday _ From the author of the Costa and Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Pao Jamaica, 1938. Read her if you want to know about the Caribbean' - Monique Roffey, winner of the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature 'A vivid portrayal.
_ 'Kerry Young is a standalone talent in the new emerging generation of writers from the Caribbean region.
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