RIVER SING ME HOME By Eleanor Shearer

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @RandomTTours and @eleanorbshearer for letting us be part if this tour and reviewing this book. River sing me Home is beaufully written and made me feel sad for Rachel because she had her family taken away from her and they where sold as slaves. Rachel was a slave herself. over time she decided to go look for her children now adults . Rachel is very brave because you dont know what she will find on her journey . I resally like the front cover its beautiful snd its all the names if her children on the front cover. It did make me sad in places but i am happy that Rachel got to found out about her children lives. Very powerful story about slavery , love and loss. The story is set on the carribbean and hearbreaking but emotional read 5 stars. Will be reading more by Eleanor Shearer in the future. Blurb Powerful, moving and redemptive, RIVER SING ME HOME tells of a mother’s desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom. We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips. Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are the names of her children. The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations. The faces Rachel cannot forget. It’s 1834, and the law says her people are now free. But for Rachel freedom means finding her children, even if the truth is more than she can bear. With fear snapping at her heels, Rachel keeps moving. From sunrise to sunset, through the cane fields of Barbados to the forests of British Guiana and on to Trinidad, to the dangerous river and the open sea. Only once she knows their stories can she rest. Only then can she finally find home. Author Bio ELEANOR SHEARER is a mixed-race writer and the granddaughter of Windrush generation immigrants. She splits her time between London and Ramsgate so that she never has to go too long without seeing the sea. For her Master’s degree in Politics at the University of Oxford, Eleanor studied the legacy of slavery and the case for reparations, and her fieldwork in St. Lucia and Barbados helped inspire her first novel. T: @eleanorbshearer #RiverSingMeHome

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