Sugar Money
About this book
The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of
The Observations and
Gillespie and I
'Pitches you headfirst into this outstanding, heartbreaking story of siblings, slavery and the savagery of the colonial past.'
SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Harris builds a lush sense of place, and the pace and tension of a rip-roaring adventure here, with derring-do and double-crossing.'
THE TIMES
'Through masterful detail, Harris shows the dehumanisation of the brothers and their fellow slaves . . . Beautifully cadenced.'
IRISH TIMES
Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas - and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste - he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.
With great characters, a superb narrative set up, and language that is witty and thrillingly alive,
Sugar Moneyis a novel to treasure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Map
- Based on a True Story
- Contents
- Part One: St Pierre, Martinique, Western Antilles December 1765
- Part Two: At Sea, Western Antilles
- Part Three: Grenada (First Day)
- Part Four: Grenada (First Night)
- Part Five: Grenada (Second Day)
- Part Six: Grenada (Second Night)
- Part Seven: Grenada (Third Day)
- Part Eight: The Escape
- Part Nine: Fugitive
- Part Ten: A Return
- Part Eleven: Tjenbé Rèd; Pa Moli
- A Note from the Editor of this Narrative
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the same author
- Copyright
