Island QueenAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 21 July 2022
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â?oRiveting and transformativeâ?▌evocative and immersive...by turns vibrant and bold and wiseâ?▌discovering Dorothyâ?Ts story is a singular pleasure.â??â?"New York Times (Editorsâ?T Choice)A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true-life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.A Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island ofA Montserrat, Doll bought her freedomâ?"and that of her sister and her motherâ?"from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent. Vanessa Rileyâ?Ts novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England. From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of Londonâ?Ts elite,A Island QueenA is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.
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