Book of Night Women Book

[I finished this last night. It is one of the best books I have ever read and I can't get it out of my head. All day I've been thinking about it. The book finished, the characters had their stories told, but I'm still thinking of them, I want to know what they did afterwards. I want to write a proper review but it's going to take a few days to digest.

I want to recommend it to everyone, but as an audio. Then the Jamaican patois really comes to life rather than being very unfamiliar on the printed page. Also the narration itself is wonderful, it really makes the book come alive.

I am learning history. I am learning the Maroons, the escaped slaves community in Jamaica was as vicious to other escaped slaves after a treaty with the whites, if not more so. I am learning that a slave's lot was worse than anything I had read. This is fiction. Of the history I believe every word. Knowing what one's ancestors went through it must be hard for the uneducated and untravelled to let go of racial suspicion. (hide spoiler)]