Joan Riley es una autora que se enfoca en articular las experiencias de las personas afrocaribeñas en Inglaterra. Su escritura a menudo se basa en perspectivas personales y trabajo social para iluminar las vidas de mujeres de orígenes caribeños. El trabajo de Riley profundiza en temas de identidad y pertenencia, abordados con una voz distintiva y empática.
This is the moving story of Adella, who moves to Jamaica where life seems to promise so much—a respectable career and the chance of professional status as a seamstress. Adella falls in love with Stanton, whom she eventually follows to England—and who then deserts her. Now a grandmother, Adella waits for her husband to return, haunted by memories and assessing what has been achieved over the years.
Her father's violence and her new classmate's hostility force Hyacinth, eleven, to try to forget her new home in England by dreaming about her old one in Jamaica