Review: Beautiful, poignant story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2012
Olga, A Daughter's Tale by Marie Campbell traces a life from turn of the century Jamaica to today.  Born into a hard-working but eccentric family of English ex-pats and native Jamaicans, Olga grows up in a childhood of genteel poverty but easy and happy tropical living.  Eventually, she journeys to England to stay with her Aunt, a dark cloud on the family if only they would admit it, and her story takes on a different nature.  Olga's story is told through letters and musing of herself, her mother and her Jamaican aunt, and you can see where Olga gets her stubbornness and her moral strength to make the decision she does.  Campbell has a quiet, straight-forward style that works well as a foil for the exciting and emotional family she records.  This is a lovely novel, and a story that will stay with you.