For The Plot Session 2: A Trace Of Sun x Smallie
For The Plot Session TWO: A Trace of Sun x Smallie
A Trace Of Sun by Pam Williams dives deep into love, family and the psychological effects of leaving home on a ship for a better life for your children can have.
Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard is timely novel about the pain caused by the Windrush scandal, but is also a beautiful piece of literature about the big ‘what if’ in life.
Having read both of these books, I just KNOW that a conversation involving both these brilliant authors will be magical. So I made it happen.
Does the PLOT excite you? SEE YOU THERE Thursday 10th September 6-8PM
Waterstones Islington 11 Islington Grn, London N1 2XH
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A Trace of Sun: Raef is left behind in Grenada when his mother, Cilla, follows her husband to England in search of a better life. When they are finally reunited seven years later, they are strangers – and the emotional impact of the separation leads to events that rip their family apart. As they try to move forward with their lives, his mother’s secret will make Raef question all he’s ever known of who he is.
A Trace of Sun is, in part, inspired by the author’s own family experiences.
Smallie: In 1961, nineteen-year-old Lucinda Brown travels to England in search of her son’s father, Clarence Braithwaite, who left Barbados to join the British army. But aboard the ship to Southampton she meets a man named Raldo who offers her a glimpse of a new life, a freer life. Bound by the memory of her son waiting at home, she chooses Clarence – realizing too late that war has made a stranger out of him.
Nearly fifty years later, Lucinda receives a letter from the Home Office that threatens to tear her world apart. Her children rally together to prove her legal arrival, and to do so they must track down an elusive man from her past, a man she wanted to love but instead lost, a man who now holds the key to her family’s future. Raldo . . .
An exhilarating and expansive tale of a family thrown into collision with the Windrush scandal, Smallie shows just how easily the past can spill into our lives, even when – especially when – we think we’ve closed the door on it.