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The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
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Editorial Review:

'...the breathtaking pace and verve...make it a delight; a touch of summer reading in a grim winter'

'An unabashedly frangipani-scented - and wholly satisfying - armchair read'

(Vogue )

'Breathtaking pace and verve... a delight'

(Independent )

'A love song to a slice of paradise that's teetering on the edge... a complete joy'

(Daily Mirror )

' A joy to read, at once humorous, touching and poetic... The Pirate's Daughter charms as surely as any dashing film hero'

(Sunday Telegraph )

'Cezair-Thompson has a light enough touch to tie such weighty issues as race, class and politics...a panorama of the diverse life of Jamaica held together by a sense of beguilement with the island itself'

(Time Out )

' wonderful descriptions of life in Port Antonio....the book really comes to life when the handsome Flynn is around...no doubt this will be a big seller as it's already much talked about...'

Cezair-Thompson's evocations of Jamaican life, and especially her renditions of the bivrant local patios, are a joy to read, at once humourous, touching and poetic...The Pirate's Daughter charms as surely as any dashing film hero.

Wonderful descriptions of life in Port Antonio....the book really comes to life when the handsome Flynn is around...no doubt this will be a big seller as it's already much talked about.

An astonishing love song to Jamaica' and `a romantic tour de force that provocatively confronts the concepts of historical Hollywood, modern colonialism and passionate adventure.

A surprising yarn that is rich, salty, and ultimately satisfying...sparkles with characters real and imagined.

The Pirate's Daughter offers plenty of serious passion and escape.

An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history.
Jamaica, 1946.  Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca, his storm-wrecked yacht.  Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio's Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the 'World's Handsomest Man' is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him. For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share. Soon Flynn has made a home for himself on Navy Island, where he entertains the cream of Hollywood at parties that become a byword for decadence  - and Ida has set her heart on marrying this charismatic older man who has singled her out for his attention.  Flynn and Ida do not marry, but Ida bears Flynn a daughter, May, who will meet her father but once.  The Pirate's Daughter is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battles for love and survivial, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.

An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history.Jamaica, 1946. Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca", his storm-wrecked yacht. Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio's Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the 'World's Handsomest Man' is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him. For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share. Soon Flynn has made a home for himself on Navy Island, where he entertains the cream of Hollywood at parties that become a byword for decadence - and Ida has set her heart on marrying this charismatic older man who has singled her out for his attention. Flynn and Ida do not marry, but Ida bears Flynn a daughter, May, who will meet her father but once. The Pirate's Daughter" is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battles for love and survivial, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Readable-just!
  I was really looking forward to Richard and Judys summer reads but this book really dissapointed me. It missed a good storyline and often I thought it included to much uneccessary detail. I found it quite boring and often thought of just giving up on it. Would not reccomend.

• Captivating slice of history and romance
  The pirate of the title refers to Errol Flynn, who finds himself washed up on the shores of Jamaica following a storm. He finds calmness and peace on the charming island, and seeks refuge there from the scandal that follows him in Hollywood. Ida, the daughter of a man who befriends Errol, develops a crush on him and their somewhat odd friendship develops over the years.
  Ida grows into a beautiful young woman, and one day the inevitable happens. Ida finds she is pregnant with Flynn's child, but raises... more info

• Long hot days
  A great book for reading sitting in the shade if a palm tree. Evocative, romantic, sad and ultimately up lifting. I loved the way Errol Flynn was involved and all the others like Ian Flemming. It captured perfectly that time in history. Maybe I spent too long watching Errol Flynn when I was Young!

• Research?
  The problem with writing books that combine fact with fiction means that the writer has to research the true facts before publishing.
  Ida comments on the fact that she saw pictures of Errol with Princess Margaret and her husband Lord Snowden, in a section of the book that must have been set in the early fifties.
  However Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrog Jones did not marry until May 1960 by which time Errol Flynn was dead, having died in October 1959.
  

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