Review: Amazing Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2011
Olga-A Daughters TaleMarie-Therese( Browne) CampbellAvailable on Kindle.5 StarsOlga- A Daughters Tale  is the story of one family and  their trials and tribulations that they have gone through. Marie-Therese (Browne)Campbell  would never had known about her family in Jamaica. A true  story that deals with  prejudice, deceit, cruelty all heaped on women during the war. When  her mother was sick in the hospital if she had died Marie never would have known about the family behind in Jamaica. It's a fast read that  is strictly taken from diaries  not only from her mother  Olga but her great aunt Lucy and her grandmother.As she relates how  the family ended up in Jamaica from England and how her grandmother at that  time married a black man which was highly frowned upon.  Olga goes to England to attend a dance school and live with her Aunt Martha, whom she soon learns is a liar and an alcoholic. With the advent of the war she is unable to  return to Jamaica. When she is raped by an army doctor she did not realize she could get pregnant and that now  ends her  training to be a nurse and she is forced to leave that position.As we follow  the life of Olga who was not about to give up her child, even though she falls on hard times, she manages to send her to a good Catholic Boarding school for a time. In all this time she never writes home as she feels this would bring shame to her family. In the end her daughter Marie places an ad in the Jamaica Paper and after 50 years Olga finally talks once again to her family and Marie now has a connection.This is a powerful story of a close knit family that takes the reader through  the marriages, births of children and the war and how  the family drifts apart as  some moved to the United States .  Through their  family history, their heritage and their culture and how the war and events of that time  separated one  young lady from her entire family. Did Marie ever get to meet her father, No he also moved to the United States and died in an accident, more than likely never knowing he had a daughter in England.If you like Biographical  genre's then I feel you will enjoy this book. Would make a great movie.