Paperback
The Pirate's Daughter
$80.41
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2009
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Summary
An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history.
Jamaica, 1946. Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca, his storm-wrecked yacht. Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio’s Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the ‘World’s Handsomest Man’ is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him. For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share. Soon…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755343591 |
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| ISBN-10: | 075534359X |
| Author: | Margaret Cezair-Thompson |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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‘An unabashedly frangipani-scented - and wholly satisfying - armchair read’ - Vogue
‘Breathtaking pace and verve… a delight’ - Independent‘A love song to a slice of paradise that’s teetering on the edge… a complete joy’ - Daily Mirror’ A joy to read, at once humorous, touching and poetic… The Pirate’s Daughter charms as surely as any dashing film hero’ - Sunday Telegraph‘Cezair-Thompson has a light enough touch to tie such weighty issues as race, class and politics…a panorama of the diverse life of Jamaica held together by a sense of beguilement with the island itself’ - Time OutAbout The Author
Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Margaret Cezair-Thompson was born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies. Her first novel, the acclaimed The True History of Paradise, was published in 1999, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. She is a professor of English at Wellesley College, and lives in Massachusetts.
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