Eleanor Shearer is an author of historical and literary fiction. She traces her lineage back to Windrush-era immigrants. For her first novel, River Sing Me Home, she drew upon her fieldwork in St. Lucia and Barbados, as well as her academic background in Politics, which she studied at the University of Oxford.
In the forests of Barbados, Rachel is running for her life. She has just escaped from the cane fields of Providence, where she and those she loved endured long years of servitude. All that was meant to change with the 1834 Emancipation Act, but relie...
