"Child, I don't have a mistress. I'm from Jamaica, and I'm liberee. I been free for ten years. My master sent me here when I was nineteen years old. "That's it," he said. "You go on. You free now." I been in New Orleans ever since."
Who is Margot, the mysterious midwife who moved into Jenny's house in New Orleans, promising to deliver her child? For every life, there's a story...
Jamaica, 1820. Seven-year-old Margot and her mother have lost their home to a storm, and they take refuge at Hawkshead, a nearby cane plantation owned by Felix Finley, whom everyone calls the Squire. A Creole child, Margot is destined to live her life as a slave, and she grows up in the ever-changing world of Hawkshead, a world dominated by the looming figure of the Squire. But when, as a young woman, she seeks love, she learns a bitter lesson that will haunt her long into the future and take her far from her Jamaica home.
This is her thrilling story.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Who is Margot, the mysterious midwife who moved into Jenny's house in New Orleans, promising to deliver her child? For every life, there's a story...
Jamaica, 1820. Seven-year-old Margot and her mother have lost their home to a storm, and they take refuge at Hawkshead, a nearby cane plantation owned by Felix Finley, whom everyone calls the Squire. A Creole child, Margot is destined to live her life as a slave, and she grows up in the ever-changing world of Hawkshead, a world dominated by the looming figure of the Squire. But when, as a young woman, she seeks love, she learns a bitter lesson that will haunt her long into the future and take her far from her Jamaica home.
This is her thrilling story.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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