The Last Warner Woman

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Adamine Bustamante is born in Jamaica, inside one of the islands last leper colonies. When she goes to a Revivalist Church, she discovers her gift of warning. But no one has bothered to warn Adamine that when she migrates to England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will no longer be respected. People will think she is crazy and lock her away in a mental hospital.

Now an old woman, Adamine wants to tell her own story but she must compete with Mr Writer Man the novelist who is twisting her words for his own book and Adamine doesn't know why.

In a story about magic and migration, about stories and storytelling, we discover it is never one person who owns a story, or who has the right to tell it.

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Kei Miller

Kei Miller

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He is currently teaching Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. He has published several collections of poetry and a book of short stories, Fear of Stones, which was published by Macmillan Caribbean and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize For Best First Book.

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