Imprint: BlackAmber
Format: B Format
ISBN: 978-1-901969-21-4
Price: £ 7.99
Pages: 210 pp
Date: 4-Apr
"An inspiring, heartwarming and lovely story" - Times Educational Supplement
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One Bright Child
Patricia Cumper
Based on the true story of Gloria Clare Cumper, the author's mother, one of the first black women to graduate from Cambridge, 'One Bright Child' is the uplifting and vivid tale of a young black girl's hard earned fulfilment.
In 1936, Gloria Carter at thirteen is torn from her home in Kingston, Jamaica when she is sent to an exclusive girls' school in England to recieve the finest education money can buy. It isn't long before Gloria learns that she will always need to be twice as good as everyone else in order to be considered half as good. Throwing herslef into her studies, Gloria sets her heart on becoming a barrister and wins a palace to study Law at Girton College, Cambridge University. Ahead lie struggles and joys as she enters a controversial mixed mariage. However, the hardships she encounters, far from dampening her spirit, ignite the fire for her inevitable success.
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