
The stunning return from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Observations & Gillespie & I'A vivid perfectly paced tale of slavery & freedom innocence & experience love & despair Sugar Money is told in an unforgettably beautiful language What a stunning writer Jane Harris is mastering an extremely harrowing & complex subject & making it into art' AMANDA CRAIGMartinique 1765 & brothers Emile & Lucien are charged by their French master Father Cleophas with a mission They must return to Grenada the island they once called home & 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 & worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face But with no choice other than to obey Cleophas
- & 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 & language that is witty & thrillingly alive Sugar Money is a novel to treasure