2010 Longlist
Strange Music
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.
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
England
Original Language
English
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Nominating Library