Book description
When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the
charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that
her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family
travel, with their young son Milton, from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But
this is England in the 1950s and, no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that
it would, England does not take kindly to strangers, especially families
who are half black and half white. A profound and moving novel, this is
the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin. Born in
South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written nine novels, one of which, RED
DUST has been filmed with Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her first
play, Guantanamo, played in London's West End and off-Broadway in New
York. ICE ROAD was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
