Product Description
Born on England?s cold and rocky Cornish coast, Edna Manley came to Jamaica in 1922. As the wife of a National Hero and mother to the island?s fifth prime minister, Edna?s life was inextricably linked with Jamaican politics. But she was destined to leave her own mark on her adopted country. Her legacy?much less easily defined, perhaps, than either her husband?s or her son?s?can be seen and heard and read. In Horses in Her Hair, Rachel Manley?Edna?s granddaughter and an award-winning author?tells the remarkable story of her grandmother?s life.
About the Author
RACHEL MANLEY is the author of the memoir
Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, which won the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction in 1997, and
Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers. She has also published three books of poetry and edited
Edna Manley: The Diaries, a collection of her grandmother’s journals. Manley is a New York Public Library Fellow, a Pierre Berton Fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow (Bellagio), and a former Bunting Fellow for Literature at Radcliffe College. She serves on the creative writing faculty at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has won Jamaica’s prestigious Centennial Medal for Poetry. Manley divides her time between Toronto and Jamaica. She has two sons, Drum and Luke.
