SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITING ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARD

Based on a remarkable and little-known true story.


Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back forty-two slaves claimed by English invaders. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions of the true dangers they will face . . .

Les mer

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITING ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARD

Based on a remarkable and little-known true story.


Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission.

Les mer
Outstanding . . . Jane Harris pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.
<b>Jane Harris's third novel is both a heart-breaking trip into our troubled colonial past, and a stunning act of literary ventriloquism. </b>

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571336951
Publisert
2018-09-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
363 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
464

Forfatter

Biographical note

Jane Harris was born in Belfast and brought up in Glasgow. Her debut novel, The Observations, was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and she was also shortlisted for the British Book Awards Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year and the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. It was followed in 2011 by the highly acclaimed Gillespie & I, and that same year The Observations was chosen by Richard and Judy as one of their 100 Books of the Decade.