Ebook: Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood

Cover; Title; Prologue; Part One; 1 Edith; 2 Nomdmi; 3 Stories in the Wind; 4 The Guava Stick; 5 My Mother Who Makes Puddings from Yorkshire; 6 Anancy and the Broom; 7 Samson's Head; 8 Too Many Horses; 9 The Enigma; 10 The Ink Stain; 11 An Extra-Tough Worm; 12 The Gate; Part Two; 13 "Each Frustrate Ghost"; 14 A Midsummer-Night's Dream; 15 Two Ducks in a Pond; 16 The Verge; 17 September Second; The Dzanc Books eBook Club.;Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica''s national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant and artistic Manleys, Jamaica''s most prominent and glamorous political family, and the house in which they lived, Drumblair. Manley vividly recreates the world in which she came of age in this intimate and captivating memoir of the people who most changed Jamaica''s intellectual, social, and cultural landscape.