Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria’s desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own.
Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of a country on the cusp of a new era, Gloria is an enthralling and illuminating story of love and redemption.
- ISBN10 1408822881
- ISBN13 9781408822883
- Publish Date 11 April 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Bloomsbury Circus
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English