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A house for Miss Pauline

When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herse...

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Main Author: McCaulay, Diana (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Jamaica > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Jamaica > Fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmers in the area, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive.
Item Description:"A tender and urgent story about who owns the land on which our identities are forged, starring an unforgettably fierce ninety-nine-year-old heroine"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:303 pages ; 26 cm
ISBN:9781643757223
Author Notes:

Diana McCaulay is a much-recognized Jamaican environmental activist and the award-winning author of five novels. Winner of the Gold Musgrave Medal, Jamaica's highest award for lifetime achievement across the arts and sciences; twice Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region (in 2022 and in 2012), she has also been shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award, among other nominations, and is the winner of the Watson, Little 50 Prize for unrepresented writers aged 50+. Diana was born and lives in Kingston, Jamaica, is a founding editor of Pree , an online magazine for Caribbean writing, and is currently also working on an anthology of environmental writing.


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