Fun and Meaningful
I wasn't sure at first about this book's "hook"--the idea that one of the main characters was the illegitimate daughter of film star Errol Flynn. Fortunately, Flynn's image--on film and in the minds of his lover, daughter, and friends--hovers in the background of the novel, a representative of a more glamorous world gone by and of the rising colonial and racial tensions in Jamaica from the 1960s onward. Cezair-Thompson creates a tangible tropical atmosphere with her lyrical prose, and the testy relationship between mother and daughter can be understood by people in all cultures.
