Strange_Music
2010 Nominated

Strange Music

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Richly complex, Strange Music recreates the lives of three women — the poet Elizabeth Barrett in England, and in Jamaica on the Barrett estate, there is Kaydia, a maidservant and Sheba, an indentured labourer. All three women struggle to escape a tragic but ever-present past.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Laura
Fish

Laura Fish was an award-winning writer of Caribbean heritage who passed away in October 2024. Her third novel, Lying Perfectly Still, won the SI Leeds Readers’ Choice Award and came third in the SI Leeds Literary Prize in 2022.

Laura Fish was an award-winning writer of Caribbean heritage who passed away in October 2024. Her third novel, Lying Perfectly Still, won the SI Leeds Readers’ Choice Award and came third in the SI Leeds Literary Prize in 2022.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Laura Fish is a passionate and poetic writer, she recently did a reading of Strange Music at our reading group. The audience were captivated by this fictional exploration of the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

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