One People

By Guy Kennaway

Set in the village of Cousins Cove, Jamaica, One People plunges us into a small community where everyone knows everyone’s business, poverty is a way of life and dreams of escape trickle through fingers. Guy Kennaway’s comic novel – sparkling with irreverent wit and written partly in Patwa – is cherished in Jamaica for its humour and humanity. It celebrates the essence of the island, where ‘culture is something that comes from the ground up and good times do not require a whole heap o’ money’. First published in 1997, the book grew out of the tales that Kennaway listened to on the island during his first ten years as an idle expatriate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781780602073

Guy Kennaway

Guy Kennaway is a writer of fiction and memoir. He is best known for his novels ONE PEOPLE, about village life in Jamaica, BIRD BRAIN, about a bunch of optimistic pheasants, and for his memoir TIME TO GO about killing his mother (with her permission.). His most recent novel, THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2021. His most recent memoir is FOOT NOTES, a broad comedy about race and nationality which he wrote with his relative Hussein Sharif.'In all my writing my aim is to delight and amuse,' Kennaway has said. 'Hopefully I make people laugh out loud. Laughter is our most effective weapon in the battle against the difficulties and struggles of life. If I can transport my reader to a happy, joyful world, my mission is successful.'