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What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones Kindle Edition
'AN OUTSTANDING DEBUT' CHERIE JONES, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House
'VIVID AND AUTHENTIC' LEONE ROSS, author of This One Sky Day
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him.
Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to Kingston. From the moment she sees him, Dinah never doubts - this is her son.
What happens next will make everyone question what they know and where they belong.
A powerful story of belonging, identity and inheritance, What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You brings together a blazing chorus of voices to evoke Jamaica's ghetto, dance halls, criminal underworld and corrupt politics, at the beating heart of which is a mother's unshakeable love for her son.
'TAKES US ON A WONDERFUL MULTIFACETED JOURNEY THORUGH THE LIVES, LOVES, PLEASURES AND ATROCITIES OF THE FOLKS OF KINGSTON' JACOB ROSS, author of The Bone Readers
'A PROPULSIVE AND BREATHTAKING STORY' MAISY CARD, author of These Ghosts are Family
'A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' CAMILLE HERNÁNDEZ-RAMDWAR, author of Suite as Sugar and Other Stories
'AN EXCITING READ' YEWANDE OMOTOSO, author of An Unusual Grief
'A WONDERFUL DEBUT NOVEL' GILLIAN ROYES, author of the Shad series
'TAYLOR'S GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS HOW SHE CAPTURES THE DARKNESS OF THE GHETTO WHILE NEVER DIMMING THE VIVACITY, DETERMINATION AND EXUBERANCE DISPLAYED BY ITS PEOPLE. THIS IS A THRILLING READ' CELESTE MOHAMMED, author of Pleasantview
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVirago
- Publication dateJuly 7, 2022
- File size3662 KB
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- ASIN : B09B9KR9Y7
- Publisher : Virago (July 7, 2022)
- Publication date : July 7, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 3662 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 430 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,651,294 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,714 in Humorous Literary Fiction
- #4,209 in Dark Humor
- #5,808 in Domestic Thrillers (Books)
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I’m a novelist, short fiction writer and corporate attorney hailing from Jamaica, although I also consider Barbados and New Zealand home.
I’ve had the privilege of winning the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award and the 2019 Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. My short stories have been published in: the Arts Etc NIFCA Winning Words Anthologies; Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, The Caribbean Writer, Jamaica Journal, Commonwealth Writers’ Adda Stories, BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, Pree, Jamaica Observer and the Fish Anthology. My story for Pree “Saffy’s Song” was shortlisted in the Rebel Women Lit’s inaugural Caribbean Readers’ Awards 2020.
My debut novel is ‘What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You.’ I’m represented by literary agent Hellie Ogden of Janklow & Nesbit.
I am a voracious reader, drawn to books with strong voice and characterization. As a writer, my aim is to be true to the characters and the stories they tell me.
Please follow my Author Page here on Amazon and connect with me on twitter at @IAmSharmaTaylor
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