Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: families, england, juvenile fiction, social classes, secrecy, juvenile literature, slavery, racially mixed people, london (england), history, 1800-1950, juvenile fiction, great britain, 20th century, caribbean area, 1810-1945, fiction