This novel beautifully evokes the feeling of the Caribbean and the people who live there. Comparisons in style have been made to Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. We follow the life of Celia who has not had any easy childhood an on escaping her past to go to Trinidad she finds love and passion but heartache too. Descriptive and moving this is a lovely first novel from a new voice.
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Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world — when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so low he could crawl under a snake’s belly on stilts. Celia thinks he’s the devil, and one day he does something to prove her right, so she runs away to Trinidad and a new life in service.
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 features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Debut Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Black Rock is available in Ebook, Paperback
Black Rock was written by Amanda Smyth and published by Profile Books Ltd
