The Pirate's Daughter

The ultimate 'thinking-person's beach read', a novel based on a fascinating kernel of fact that is as thought provoking as it is utterly unputdownable.

An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history.
Jamaica, 1946. Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca, his storm-wrecked yacht. Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio's Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the 'World's Handsomest Man' is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him. For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share. Soon Flynn has made a home for himself on Navy Island, where he entertains the cream of Hollywood at parties that become a byword for decadence - and May has set her heart on marrying this charismatic older man who has singled her out for his attention. Flynn and Ida do not marry, but Ida bears Flynn a daughter, May, who will meet her father but once.
Pirate's Daughter is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battles for love and survivial, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.

About the Author

Margaret Cezair-Thompson was born and raised in Jamaica, West Indies. Her first novel, THE TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE, was published in 1999, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award; her second, THE PIRATE'S DAUGHTER, won the first ever Essence Literary Award for Fiction. She is a professor of English at Wellesley College, and lives in Massachusetts.

Previous Books:
The Pirate's Daughter (Bfmt, 01/09).

Other titles by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

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