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Contents (72)
  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Contents
  4. The Old Bailey, London, 7 April 1826
  5. Chapter One
  6. Paradise, Jamaica, 1812‒25
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. London, February 1825
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Chapter Twenty
  27. Chapter Twenty-One
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  34. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  35. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  36. Chapter Thirty
  37. Chapter Thirty-One
  38. Chapter Thirty-Two
  39. The School-house
  40. August 1825‒January 1826
  41. Chapter Thirty-Three
  42. Chapter Thirty-Four
  43. Chapter Thirty-Five
  44. Chapter Thirty-Six
  45. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  46. Levenhall
  47. January 1826
  48. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  49. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  50. The Old Bailey
  51. 7 April 1826
  52. Chapter Forty
  53. Chapter Forty-One
  54. Chapter Forty-Two
  55. Chapter Forty-Three
  56. Chapter Forty-Four
  57. Chapter Forty-Five
  58. Newgate Prison
  59. Chapter Forty-Six
  60. Chapter Forty-Seven
  61. Chapter Forty-Eight
  62. Chapter Forty-Nine
  63. Chapter Fifty
  64. Chapter Fifty-One
  65. Chapter Fifty-Two
  66. Chapter Fifty-Three
  67. Chapter Fifty-Four
  68. Author’s Note
  69. Acknowledgements
  70. About the Author
  71. Copyright
  72. About the Publisher

My love and thanks to him, and to our children, Ashani, Christiana, Marianne, Nyah and Lewis, who made me feel how proud they were of Mom at every stage. I am equally proud of them.

Just over two years ago, I walked into Nelle Andrew’s office with fragments of a novel. She saw a future for it and made sure I did too. I couldn’t imagine a better agent, or a more phenomenal woman.

I’d also like to thank Alexandra Cliff for her help and advice en route to publication, as well as the entire team at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop.

I was lucky that this book passed through the hands of three incredible editors: Katy Loftus (UK), who seemed to read my mind from our first phone call to the last line edit, Emily Griffin (USA) and Iris Tupholme (Canada), for their wisdom and insight. They made this a better book.

My thanks to the teams at HarperCollins in New York, including Jonathan Burnham, Doug Jones, Stephanie Cooper, Leah Wasielewski, Jane Beirn, Hannah Bishop, Robin Bilardello and Kim Racon, and Toronto, including Leo Macdonald, Michael Guy-Haddock, Lauren Morrocco, Deanna Norlock and Cory Beatty. My thanks also to the team at Viking in the UK.

I owe a huge debt to the English teachers and librarians who entertained my endless requests for more war poems and more Jane Austen. The debt I owe to Mrs Mountcastle can never be repaid.

My thanks to everyone involved with the MSt programme at Cambridge University, in particular Jem Poster, who supervised early drafts; Sarah Burton, who sent me a book of oral histories; Midge Gillies, who planted the seed; and my fellow students, Jo Sadler and David Prosser. My thanks also to the judges of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, as well as the team at Lucy Cavendish College.

My friends kept me sane, laughing and, in some cases, fed: Jo Sadler, Emma Wiseman, Sasha Beattie, Dalia Akar, Cassie Wallis, Hana Akram, Helena Reynolds, Magda Embury, Penny Brandon, Rosalie Wain.

Finally, thank you to my parents, for encouraging my love of Jamaica even after we’d left it. And to my Jamaican grandparents: Florence and Theodore Grant, and Henry Duckworth Collins, whose sacrifices and achievements made my life possible.

About the Author

SARA COLLINS is of Jamaican descent and grew up in Grand Cayman. She studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years before earning a master’s degree in creative writing at Cambridge University, where she was the recipient of the 2015 Michael Holroyd Prize for Creative Writing. She lives in London, England.

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.