Everyone enjoyed this book. It had lots of engaging aspects: farce, humour, historical events, rivalry, drama, and horror driven by the grim subject of slavery. It was particularly interesting in its Jamaican setting and so much writing about slavery is set in the Southern USA and how people can live so cheek by jowl and have such little understanding of each other. It described the price of slavery not only paid by the slaves but the unhappy lives of the slave owners in the book. It also chimed with the TV programme ‘Who Do You Think You are ?’ with lovely twists in family heritage.
Scores went from 7 to 10 with an average of 8.5
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