The Unbelonging

<p>Her father's violence and her new classmate's hostility force Hyacinth, eleven, to try to forget her new home in England by dreaming about her old one in Jamaica</p>

Riley, Joan.

Literature & Fiction

Womens Pr Ltd

<p>This is the moving story of Adella, who moves to Jamaica where life seems to promise so much—a respectable career and the chance of professional status as a seamstress. Adella falls in love with Stanton, whom she eventually follows to England—and who then deserts her. Now a grandmother, Adella waits for her husband to return, haunted by memories and assessing what has been achieved over the years.</p>

Waiting in the Twilight

This volume unites literature from the diverse fields of organizational theory and change, employment relations, HRM, sociology, economics and social psychology. It brings together the principal theories, explanations and debates surrounding the flexibility issue to provide a useful overview. This treatment offers an analysis of flexibility as a concept, the different levels at which it is applied and the different ways in which it is used. Patterns of flexibility are identified and examined and the text considers what flexibility means to individual workers - their relationship with employers, involvement in and control over their working lives and the relationship between these and their life outside work. Importantly the book provides a consideration of global trends and establishes patterns of flexibility for different countries and regions.

A Kindness to the Children

Two sisters could hardly be more different. At 27, Verona is bright and capable, but confused. Defiantly fat, she seeks refuge from a monotonous existence by imagining herself as the blond, blue-eyed heroine of popular romance. Desiree is more level-headed, but less than satisfied with her role as mother to two spirited daughters and unofficial uniform washer for her husband John and his football team. Then Granny Ruby and Grandpa Clifford arrive from Jamaica—and everything starts to look up.

Romance

Contemporary

The Unbelonging is the story of Hyacinth, an eleven-year-old Jamaican girl who must leave the warmth and exuberance of the backstreets of Kingston for the gloom of British inner city life with a father she has never met. Through academic achievements and dreams of her homeland, Hyacinth triumphs against the hostility of her classmates and the threats of violence she endures at home, sustained by the sure knowledge that her dreams hold the truth. The Unbelonging tells the story of the struggles of the Windrush generation in the UK, of the pressures they faced, the homesickeness they endured, and of the cultural misunderstandings, malicious or well meaning that continue to underlie race relations today.

Unbelonging

Women's Press, Ltd. (UK)

The writer as exile is the uniting theme of this collection of fiction and poetry by writers from India, the Caribbean, China, South Africa, the USSR, Canada, Australia and Pakistan. Nineteen literary exiles in the UK and USA re-invent their host-countries, transcending race, culture, class and gender. The writers include: Sujata Bhatt, Fred D'Aguiar, Michael Donaghy, Jane Duran, Michael Hoffman, Aamer Hussein, Yasmin Issacs, Kelvin Christopher James, Mimi Khalvati, Adam Lively, Sindiwe Magona, Bharati Mukherjee, Joan Riley, Hanan al Shaykh, Janice Shinebourne, Bapsi Sidhwe, Briar Wood and Zinovy Zinik.

Leave to stay: Stories of exile and belonging

Reference

Wood, Briar

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Virago Press

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