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Island Queen
by Vanessa Riley
First thing to know about this book is that it is LONG! It is about 20 hours of the audio version and around 550 pages of the hard copy. It is a telling of Dorothy 'Dolly' Kerwin. She live a long and full life. You learn of the abuses and indignities she faced as a slave. How she fought, worked and climbed out of it. You read of how she gained her freedom and amassed her fortune. It is not a pretty story, nor is it lighthearted. I had to put the book down many times because I found the realities she faced to be too ugly. Prior to reading this book I would consider myself knowledgeable of Caribbean history but this book has shown me that I have barely scratched the surface. I knew nothing of the rebellions of Montserrat and Grenada. I think this book is worth reading and Dolly's a story worth knowing.