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"Joy inhaled deeply, breathing in the smells, the sights, and sounds. There was so much to absorb; the hibiscus hedges surrounding the white bungalows, their elegant canopies warding off the fiercest heat from the verandas. The big mango tree by the corner well laden with green fruits and the odd yellow one, half-hidden among the leaves... Esmine stood underneath the bus shelter shifting about restlessly, squinting against the glare of the sun. She put on her sunglasses, almost breaking them in her irritation. They slid down her sweaty nose. She grabbed them off and jammed them into the side...

Set in England in the 1980s, Going Back Home is a powerful story of sibling love and rivalry, religious fundamentalism and alienation. Joy and her sister Esmine were born and brought up in England to Jamaican immigrant parents. Joy grew up to accept and be impassioned by her father's view that England could never be home for them. Both her and her father long to return to Jamaica. Esmine, on the other hand, shares her mother's views that they have earned their position in England, and that England will always be their home. Can the family survive the pressures of divided loyalties, distortion...

Aunt Vie, dignified and the village matriarch. Azora, the community's wise woman and healer. And Miss Dee. A young dressmaker and business woman. Three unlikely allies. Until they are confronted by an injustice each refuses to overlook. In newly independent Jamaica, landowner Jacob Clearly is used to getting everything he wants. But when he tries to coerce Miss Dee into a relationship against her will, he underestimates the determination and the spirit of three very different women. Unlike Normal Women is a passionate and powerful exploration of women's capacity to affect lasting change for...