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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A powerful, heart-wrenching novel of the other side of an island paradise
Cherie Jones
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Imprint
Tinder Press
- Trade Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781472268785 | RRP $32.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Apr 13, 2021 | 9781472268778 | RRP $45.00 Pre-Order
- e-Book Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268761 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268754 | RRP $35.99 Pre-Order
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Imprint
Tinder Press
- Trade Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781472268785 | RRP $32.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Apr 13, 2021 | 9781472268778 | RRP $45.00 Pre-Order
- e-Book Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268761 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268754 | RRP $35.99 Pre-Order
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Imprint
Tinder Press
- Trade Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781472268785 | RRP $32.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Apr 13, 2021 | 9781472268778 | RRP $45.00 Pre-Order
- e-Book Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268761 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268754 | RRP $35.99 Pre-Order
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Imprint
Tinder Press
- Trade Paperback Jan 27, 2021 | 9781472268785 | RRP $32.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Apr 13, 2021 | 9781472268778 | RRP $45.00 Pre-Order
- e-Book Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268761 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Jan 21, 2021 | 9781472268754 | RRP $35.99 Pre-Order
HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE is a powerful, heart-wrenching novel of a troubled island, of three marriages, and of the women who live, love and fight to survive.
'Jones's atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed' Sunday Times
'A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer' Bernardine Evaristo
'A bright new star. Cherie Jones draws us with skill, delicacy and glorious style into a vortex of Bajan lives on the edge' Diana Evans
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers.
For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result.
When Lala grows up, she sees it offers hope - of life after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man.
And Mira Whalen? It's about keeping alive, trying to make sense of the fact that her husband has been murdered, and she didn't get the chance to tell him that she loved him after all.
HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE is the powerful, intense story of three marriages, and of a beautiful island paradise where, beyond the white sand beaches and the wealthy tourists, lies poverty, menacing violence and the story of the sacrifices some women make to survive.
Praise for How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A powerful, heart-wrenching novel of the other side of an island paradise
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A crime-riddled literary novel, Jones's atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed - Sunday Times
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Visceral and haunting - Cosmopolitan
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A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer who tackles head-on the brutal extremes of patriarchal abuse - Bernardine Evaristo
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Here is a bright new star. Cherie Jones has talent abounding, drawing us with skill, delicacy and glorious style into a vortex of Bajan lives on the edge, clashing across class and colour divides. This is one of the strongest, most assured and heart-wrenching debuts I have ever read - Diana Evans
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This book unfolds around the reader like ripples in water, it offers an unflinching vision of what it means to have a body and to fight to protect that body, it demands attention. These are characters' voices I will be hearing for a long time and a book I will be recommending to everyone - Daisy Johnson
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A gripping thriller, a symphony of voices and a novel of deep empathy - Mark Haddon
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Cherie Jones' How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intricately plotted allegory that explores the consequences of believing that you know better than the women who made you and charts the inheritance of trauma that is all too common in Caribbean women's lives. With rare compassion and deft storytelling, Jones renders a narrative that is haunting and unforgettable - Naomi Jackson
Cherie Jones
Cherie Jones is a lawyer based in Barbados. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 1999. She then studied Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam in 2015, where she won both the Archie Markham Award and the A.M. Heath Prize. In 2015 she was also awarded a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Centre. A collection of inter-connected stories set in a different small community in Barbados won the third prize in the Frank Collymore Endowment Awards in 2016
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