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Love and adventure spanning Jamaican history.

"The Pirate's Daughter" is a beautifully written story that takes place in Jamaica, spanning over three decades of the country's history. The book offers an engaging narrative, full of passion, forbidden love, and the struggles of women fighting for survival, making it an excellent read for lovers of historical fiction. Margaret Cezair-Thompson's writing is poetic, which adds an entirely different layer to the story's depth and complexity. It is highly recommended for readers interested in a bit of adventure, history, and romance.

  • Essence Literary Award for Fiction
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Pirate's Daughter

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ISBN: 9780755344376
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱549.00
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.51
(rated by 2706 readers)

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"Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica," wrote Errol Flynn.In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940's Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls. Based on those years, The Pirate's Daughter is the story of Ida, a local girl who has an affair with Flynn that produces a daughter, May, who meets her father but once.Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the matinee idol’s, this lively novel tells the provocative history of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, compelling attachments, betrayal and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting. As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair-Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.
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Love and adventure spanning Jamaican history.

"The Pirate's Daughter" is a beautifully written story that takes place in Jamaica, spanning over three decades of the country's history. The book offers an engaging narrative, full of passion, forbidden love, and the struggles of women fighting for survival, making it an excellent read for lovers of historical fiction. Margaret Cezair-Thompson's writing is poetic, which adds an entirely different layer to the story's depth and complexity. It is highly recommended for readers interested in a bit of adventure, history, and romance.

  • Essence Literary Award for Fiction
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.