- Blacks, Fiction, Great Britain, Immigrants
Trouble with her mother and her new husband convinces nineteen-year-old Leila to emigrate from her Caribbean island to England.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Caryl Phillips
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Penguin Books, Vintage
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140127966
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