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River Sing Me Home

by Eleanor Shearer (£18.99, HB, Headline)

It’s 1834 and in Barbados, slavery has been abolished, but what does that really mean when former slaves are still required to work for another six years for free? In an act of resistance, Rachel goes on a heartbreaking and hopeful journey through the Caribbean and South America in search of the

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