Black Rock
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West Indies, 1950s: Celia lives in Black Rock, Tobago with Aunt Tassi, her two cousins and Roman, her step-uncle. She longs to escape village life. One afternoon, when Celia is just 16 years old, Roman comes home drunk and abuses her, and she runs away to Trinidad to find her Aunt Sula. The novel follows her as she moves from village to bustling city, sickness to health, from niece to daughter to orphan, from abused or used and from being passionately in love for the first time to heartbreak.
A lyrically beautiful story, Amanda Smyth's writing matches the lushness of the vivid tropical landscape. Black Rock is tinged with a sense of the supernatural.
Author: Amanda Smyth
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 135mm x 216mm, 312 g
Published: 2009, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
West Indies, 1950s: Celia lives in Black Rock, Tobago with Aunt Tassi, her two cousins and Roman, her step-uncle. She longs to escape village life. One afternoon, when Celia is just 16 years old, Roman comes home drunk and abuses her, and she runs away to Trinidad to find her Aunt Sula. The novel follows her as she moves from village to bustling city, sickness to health, from niece to daughter to orphan, from abused or used and from being passionately in love for the first time to heartbreak.
A lyrically beautiful story, Amanda Smyth's writing matches the lushness of the vivid tropical landscape. Black Rock is tinged with a sense of the supernatural.
Black Rock