Whole Of A Morning Sky
$45.80
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2015
Summary
‘There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline …’
The first adult novel from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2021. It is 1960 and the Walcotts are moving into the city from the village of Highdam. School headmaster Archie Walcott knows that he will miss the openness of pastureland; his wife, Clara, the women and their nourishing ‘womantalk and roots magic; and Gem, their daughter, her…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349006413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349006415 |
| Author: | Grace Nichols |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 156g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 127mm x 197mm |
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Grace Nichols
GRACE NICHOLS was born in 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana, where she grew up. She took a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana and worked as a reporter and freelance journalist. She came to Britain in 1977 and since then has published a number of children’s books and collections of poetry. Her first, I is a long memoried woman, was the winner of the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and her second, The Fat Black Woman’s Poems was published by Virago in 1984, Grace Nichols lives in Lewes, Sussex, with poet John Agard. In Whole of A Morning Sky, her first adult novel, Grace Nichols richly and imaginatively evokes a world that was a part of her own Guyanese childhood. In 2007 she became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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