The Day I Fell Off My Island

✍ Scribed by Yvonne Bailey-Smith

• Book ID: 112017259
• Publisher: Myriad Editions
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 307 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781912408962

✦ Synopsis

'Striking...an unforgettable cast of characters you'd expect to find in the grandest work of fiction.'--Candice Carty-Williams
'Juggling laughter and tears with every page, this remarkable journey of discovery tells of one young woman's captivating search for self in a new and challenging environment.'--Margaret Busby
'Brims with the pleasure of a story well-told, and with the command of a writer who is comfortable moving between the many registers of Jamaican English.'--Kwame Dawes
'Beautiful, evocative and powerfully engaging. I loved this book.'--Francesca Martinez
It's 1969 and Erna Mullings has just arrived in London from Jamaica.
Finding herself in a strange country, with a mother she barely recognises and a stepfather she despises, Erna is homesick, lost and lonely. But her life is about to change irrevocably.
A story of reluctant immigration and the relationship between children and the people who parent...