What a special novel

A story about a 100 y ear old woman looking back on her life and making peace, chasing ghosts and looking at the world around her.


There is culture and patois in the story and it weaves its magic through every page. What a treasure to behold! The author mentions the reasons behind her writing the story at the end and it was really interesting her personal link to the stories within.

Can't wait to see what others think.

Miss Pauline is nearly one hundred years old, but as the date of her birthday approaches she begins to hear the stones of her house shifting in the night, begging for her attention. She knows she needs to put her house in order, literally and metaphorically or she feels she won't make one hundred. The past and the future are woven deftly together in the strands of this story about slavery, emancipation and blood and what that means for a sense of home. A brilliantly written slice of history, held taut by a deftly plotted, magical realist story, with an emphasis on the real.