Joan Riley Book order
Joan Riley is an author who focuses on articulating the experiences of Afro-Caribbean people in England. Her writing often draws on personal insights and social work to illuminate the lives of women from Caribbean backgrounds. Riley's work delves into themes of identity and belonging, approached with a distinct and empathetic voice.
- 1998
- 1987
Waiting in the twilight
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
This is the moving story of Adella, who moves to Jamaica where life seems to promise so much—a respectable career and the chance of professional status as a seamstress. Adella falls in love with Stanton, whom she eventually follows to England—and who then deserts her. Now a grandmother, Adella waits for her husband to return, haunted by memories and assessing what has been achieved over the years.
- 1985
The Unbelonging
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Her father's violence and her new classmate's hostility force Hyacinth, eleven, to try to forget her new home in England by dreaming about her old one in Jamaica
