Review: Interesting memoir.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
A diary and a daughters curiosity are the beginnings of a discovery of who her mother really is. This is a story of a young Jamaican girl of mixed heritage who had a white mother and a black father. This was an unusual thing in the 1930's and the story of her life in Jamaica and her later time in England is an often sad but interesting story. I found her courage, spirit and determination to live a good life and raise her child despite all the odds against her uplifting. She went from a life of privilege with servants to being a servant with grace and dignity and even though the changing of her circumstances were due to the cruelty and manipulation of others she never gave up.