Described by the 'New York Times' as both beauituflly written and devasating, this is a startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery- a tour de force of voice and story telling. At the heart of the novel is an extraordinary character Lilith, a spirited slave girl struggling to transcend the violence into which she is born, her story narrated in one of the boldest voices to grace the page.
Overflowing with high drama and heartbreak, at its centre is the conspiracy of the Night Women, a clandstine council of fierce slave women plotting an island wide revolt. Rebillions simmer, incidents of sadism and madness run rampant, and the tangled web of power relationships dramatically unravels amind dangerous secrest, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion.
