Black Orchids – Gillian Slovo

“From her spare prose, she builds an elegant novel, one that is cinematic insightful and always engaging.” Kevin Rabalais Sydney Morning Herald Feb 21 2009

When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son Milton, from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s and, no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would, England does not take kindly to strangers, especially families who are half black and half white.

A profound and moving novel, this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin.

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