Strange Music

Laura Fish

RRP: £7.99

Publisher: VINTAGE

Publication Date : 09/07/2009

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Evocative novel which counterpoints the lives of 3 women: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an abolitionist whose family fortunes rest on their Caribbean estate, Kaydia a Creole housekeeper on the estate and a recently freed slave, Sheba. On the Orange Prize 2009 longlist.

Publisher's description:

While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover.

ISBN: 9780099507987