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Vanessa Riley

Island Queen Paperback Book

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At a Glance
True story of freedom
Caribbean historical epic adventure
608 pages of immersive storytelling
New York Times praised
Powerful female entrepreneur protagonist
Description

Riveting and transformativeevocative and immersive...by turns vibrant and bold and wisediscovering Dorothys story is a singular pleasure.New York Times (Editors Choice)A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible truelife story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island ofMontserrat, Doll bought her freedomand that of her sister and her motherfrom her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.Vanessa Rileys novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of Londons elite,Island Queenis a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenthcentury morality and the oppression of women...

SKU: M9780063002852
Product Details & Care

Binding: Paperback;608 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 560 g; Dimensions: 133 x 201 x 30

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