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A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

*Winner — Diverse Book Awards 2021**

This extraordinary debut novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in Black women’s writing. It is an interracial love story set in pre-Civil War America, and inspired by the true story of the author’s great-great grandparents. Along with love and race, it touches on themes of identity, sacrifice, belonging and survival.

Paperback. 368 pages
Publisher: Myriad (2021)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-912408-97-9
Size: 21.6cm x 13.5cm

Winner — Diverse Book Awards 2021

BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice
The Times Best Books for October
Stylist Best New Books
The Purrfect Read Favourite Books of 2020: Honorable Mentions
Secret World of a Book 2020 Recommended Reads

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**Winner — Diverse Book Awards 2021**

Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape poverty and famine in Ireland, only to find anti-Irish prejudice awaiting him. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and heads south to the state of Virginia, seeking work as a travelling blacksmith on the prosperous plantations.

Sarah is a slave. Torn from her family and sold to Jubilee Plantation, she must navigate the hierarchy of her fellow slaves, the whims of her white masters, and now the attentions of the mysterious blacksmith.

Fellow slave Maple oversees the big house with bitterness and bile, and knows that a white man’s attention spells trouble. Given to her half-sister as a wedding present by their white father, she is set on being reunited with her husband and daughter, at any cost.

Research included contemporary slave narratives (printed to further the abolitionist cause), digitally remastered audio recordings of former slaves, legislation on the question of slavery in the mid-19th century, historical texts on the Irish famine and first-hand accounts of English visitors to Ireland at the time, the writings of Charles Trevelyan (responsible for famine relief under Peel and Russell), historical texts on the antebellum South, and visits to the historically preserved Jubilee Plantation in Virginia on which the novel’s plantation is based.

 

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SKU BMPF
ISBN 9781912408979
Manufacturer Myriad
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