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Paperback, 1984, originally 1934. Light edgewear only.
"I love life, exquisitely, passionately, and with all the truth in me, and for itself, not just for what I can get out of it."The year is 1923 and nineteen-year-old Emmeline Hibbert sails for Jamaica, the luminous isle of her early childhood, with its breathtaking blue mountains, its vivid colours and singing, tropical heat. Behind her lies England, her convent schooldays, her beloved grandmother La, and cousin the gifted companion of her youth. But Em is irresistibly drawn back to the island of her memory and imagination. Reunited with her conventional mother and father she slips into army garrison life -- a round of polo matches, dancing, tennis, riding, gossip, and evenings at the Club. Em is intelligent, sensitive, aware; rebelling against the settled prejudices of this closed society she tries to live according to the way she escaping to her friends in the mountains, seeking people, both white and Black, akin to herself. We watch as Em comes to learn that inevitably she must make a heartbreaking choice -- if she is to be as she longs to "sexless, creedless, classless, free."
