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River Sing Me Home

River Sing Me Home

by Eleanor Shearer
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/2023

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A mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean in a gripping, moving, redemptive and unforgettable story of survival and hope.

Powerful, soaring and redemptive, RIVER SING ME HOME tells of a mother's journey to find her children.

We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips.

Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy.

These are the names of her children. The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations. The faces Rachel cannot forget.

It's 1834, and the law says her people are now free. But for Rachel freedom means finding her children, even if the truth is more than she can bear.

With fear snapping at her heels, Rachel keeps moving. From sunrise to sunset, through the cane fields of Barbados to the forests of British Guiana and on to Trinidad, to the dangerous river and the open sea.

Only once she knows their stories can she rest. Only then can she finally find home.

ISBN:
9781472291370
9781472291370
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-01-2023
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x17mm
Weight:
0.48kg

'A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love'
JEANETTE WINTERSON

'Magnificent and epic'
FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE

'A powerful story, beautifully told'
JESSICA MOOR

'Eleanor Shearer is a remarkable writer and brings this story of a mother's courage to the page with compassion, tenderness and pitch-perfect prose'
Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author

'Shearer skilfully depicts the cruelty of the British slave trade, contrasted with one mother's indomitable love for her children, and her burning will to live. An empathic, elegantly rendered and deeply humane novel'
Jessica Moor

'Eleanor Shearer bursts onto the literary scene with...an extraordinary odyssey of pain, love, and homecoming... A haunting and powerful debut'
Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author

Eleanor Shearer

Eleanor Shearer is a mixed-race writer and the granddaughter of Windrush generation immigrants. She splits her time between London and Ramsgate so that she never has to go too long without seeing the sea. For her Master's degree in Politics at the University of Oxford, Eleanor studied the legacy of slavery and the case for reparations. Her fieldwork was in St. Lucia and Barbados. The inspiration for River Sing Me Home came to Eleanor after she discovered a tiny footnote in an exhibition she was attending about the Windrush. Mothers in slavery in the British colonies lived in constant fear of their children being sold. When the Slavery Abolition Act came in in the 1830s, it didn't mean freedom, so many mothers went in search of their lost children.

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