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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext ' An incredible novel about the power of a mother's love' Good Housekeeping 'A book you will not forget for a long time' Glamour Rachel is searching for her children. The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations. The faces she cannot forget. It is 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. 'A gripping, redemptive story of survival and hope' Platinum 'Shearer brings this story of a mother's courage to the page with compassion and tenderness' Natasha Lester 'Compulsive... steeped in atmosphere' 'Powerful and moving' Mail on Sunday Woman & Home (Headline Review logo) 9781472291400 £8.99 (also available in ebook and audio) Cover credits... www.headline.co.uk (twitter and instagram logos) @eleanorbshearer Vorwort A mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean. Zusammenfassung A mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean.
