PublishedChatto & Windus, May 2015 |
ISBN9780701186050 |
FormatHardcover, 192 pages |
Dimensions22.3cm × 14.3cm × 2.1cm |
What you do to children matters. And they might never forget Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother.
Booker cannot fathom Bride s depths, with his own love-lorn past bending him out of shape. Can they find a way through the damage wrought on their blameless childhood souls, to light and happiness, free from pain? Toni Morrison s fierce and provocative new novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations.
Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
God Help the Child is an extremely powerful novel from Toni Morrison, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner. It expertly portrays the damage that childhood trauma can do to shape the life of an adult.
