از رودخانه هاروی: خاطراتی از مادر و جزیره‌اش

As read on Radio 4, this is an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home. Lorna Goodison's family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on tales of their family's - and Jamaica's - history. Gorgeously written with unashamed joy, "From Harvey River" weaves together memories with island folklore to create a vivid and irresistible story of mothers and daughters, family, and the ties that bind us to home. The author shares the story of her mother's family, tracing their origins in a privileged parish community historically marked as a place through which runaway slaves escaped and describing her mother's life in urban Jamaica. As read on Radio 4, an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home.'The book is a joy... A bittersweet reminder to all Jamaica's exiles of what we have lost'. Independent