About the Book: Gloria
The stunning new novel from the author of the Costa and Commonwealth
Prize-shortlisted Pao
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act
changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to
forge a new life in Kingston. As all around them the city convulses with
political change, Glorias desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and
Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer
whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own.
Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba
and a