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Locked in a psychiatric unit because her public singing brought her to the attention of the police, Gloria meets another British woman of Jamaican descent with whom she can share her past, giving them both hope for the future.

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Jacqueline Roy is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and is setting up a writing school together with Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Michael Schmidt and Jeffrey Wainwright. Her father, Namba Roy was a sculptor and writer and her sister Lucinda Roy has recently published a novel with Virago.
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'A striking commentary on perceptions of both race and madness...a stark, realistic vision of two women struggling to be recognised as individuals and equals within an Institutionalised system designed to control rather than cure' The Scotsman 'Such is the life injected into the characters that by the end of the novel there remains that reluctance to part with people you have come to love' calabash 'Unflinchingly told...a harrowing but also shockingly funny picture of the painful former lives of Gloria and Merle, black British women of Jamaican descent confined in a psychiatric unit' Big Issue 'A raw and unflinching study of grief and mental illness. The internal community of the hospital is vlvidly and compassionately created. A strong and humane work of fiction.' Jackie Kay

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  • PublisherTrafalgar Square
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0704346478
  • ISBN 13 9780704346475
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages242
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