The Arrival of Snakewoman and Other Stories Book

Olive Senior, winner of the first Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987 with Summer Lightning, has produced another magical volume of stories, many of which are written from a child's perspective of an alien adult world in the villages and towns of Jamaica. Senior moves with ease between past and present, and catches the haunted discontent of the older characters who take more prominence in her writing now.As always in her work there is the acerbic humour, the musicality of the Jamaican creole, and yet, more and more, an uncanny sense of wistfulness and wisdom.