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The Pirate's Daughter
The Pirate's Daughter | Margaret Cezair-Thompson
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Back in America, little was known of my life in Jamaica, wrote Errol Flynn. In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywoods most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls. Based on those years, The Pirates Daughter is the story of Ida, a local girl who has an affair with Flynn that produces a daughter, May, who meets her father but once. Spanning two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the matinee idols, this lively novel tells the provocative history of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, compelling attachments, betrayal and atonement in a paradisal, tropical setting. As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair-Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.
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KristiAhlers
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read in my opinion! This book represents #Jamaica for the the #ReadingTheAmericas2023 reading challenge. I love the history...the old Hollywood connection through Errol Flynn and the romance and storytelling. I'm probably going to seek this one out in paperback to have on my bookshelf. #bookspin @thearomaofbooks @librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Librarybelle Sounds interesting! 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 6mo
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squirrelbrain
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Spotted today in the charity shop, which was rather fortuitous! (Didn‘t buy any books either, but husband got two...)

#hesapirate
#soaringscores

Cinfhen Good find😉love when the real world sends me signs 💝 4y
CrowCAH Ooh, Errol Flynn is my fav older actor, namely because he acted in all those swashbuckling tales!!! 🏴‍☠️ 4y
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Tianarose
The Pirate's Daughter | Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Anybody read this? I thought I had seen something about it on here once but nothing comes up when I searched for this one....

daniwithtea Yes! I read it last year and *loved* it. (I‘m sure it helps that I‘m a huge Errol Flynn fan.) 6y
Tianarose @daniwithtea thank you! I‘m looking forward to it. 6y
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