num_pages: 111
description: Set in Guyana, this book tells the story of Mama King. Trapped by age and infirmity, Mama becomes too much for her family who send her away to a dreary and claustrophobic rest home - but Mama King does not give in. This book won a GLC Black Literature Competition before publication.
language: English
title: Frangipani House
titlecomplete: Frangipani House (Caribbean Writers Series)
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, School, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 720
publisher: Heinemann