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Author's library talk about emotional
story
May 30, 2008
Acclaimed author Jacqueline Walker will be
giving a reading and a talk at Stratford Library on Tuesday (June
3) as part of Newham Council's celebrations for the National Year
of Reading.
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Writer Jacqueline's inspirational memoir Pilgrim State,
was publisher Hodder & Stoughton's non-fiction Book of the
Month for April.
It tells the story of Jacqueline's mother Dorothy, a young
Jamaican woman who is incarcerated in Pilgrim State mental hospital
in New York.
On release she is deported to Jamaica with her three children
and then moves to London where she struggles to raise at family on
her own in 1960s London. She suffers racial abuse and ill health
and the children are taken into care, but the mother's love for her
children stays strong.
Jacqueline will be talking about the book in Stratford Library's
Hopkins Room on Tuesday at 7pm. There will be an opportunity to buy
the book and have it signed by her.
Entrance is free, but to be sure of a place tickets can be
booked in advance by calling Jenny Bowen on 020 7511 1332, emailing
jenny.bowen@newham.gov.uk
or from the library in The Grove. |
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