A dazzling, immersive work of historical fiction set in eighteenth-century London, where a young woman on the brink of fame and her father, both fugitives from enslavement, must fight to define – and defend – their freedom.
Pearl was only an infant when her father, Daniel, seized a desperate chance and fled with her from a Jamaican sugarcane plantation. Now sixteen, in London, she is on the cusp of something extraordinary: a blossoming career on the stage, where her voice wins admiration, en...
Pearl was only an infant when her father, Daniel, seized a desperate chance and fled with her from a Jamaican sugarcane plantation. Now sixteen, in London, she is on the cusp of something extraordinary: a blossoming career on the stage, where her voice wins admiration, en...






















