The Unbelonging

by Joan Riley

Book Overview

"Summoned to Britain by a father she has never known, eleven-year-old Hyacinth finds that she has exchanged the warmth and exuberance of the backstreets of Kingston, Jamaica, for the gloom of British inner-city life, finding herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white. But Hyacinth is not a victim as, through academic achievement and dreams of her homeland, she survives and triumphs against the hostility of her classmates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0704339595
• ISBN13: 9780704339590
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Women's Press (UK)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"