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Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo

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Blonde Roots 

Bernardine  

Evaristo 



Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World.

When she finally arrives on a strange tropical island, Doris discovers that she is, in fact, a pig-ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress. While experiencing the hardships of life in the sugarcane fields, she dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, and of returning home to her motherland, England...

Reviews

Claire Duff

Claire's review for Blonde Roots

By Claire Duff / Spinebreakers Crew

I really liked this story, even though at times it is confusing. I liked the way Evaristo altered the names of places today very subtly, yet kept some names traditional i.e. Doris.

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Imogen with Blonde Roots

Blonde Roots, Dark Highlights

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Tall, blonde, slim and a slave: Doris Scagglethorpe faces the terrors of bondage in the New World – but not as we thought it to be.

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Olivia reading Blonde Roots

Olivia's review of Blonde Roots

By Olivia Scott-Berry / Spinebreakers Crew

Overall I found Blonde Roots to be a highly courageous, successful novel, of moments which will make you cry, make you yell, and sometimes, make you laugh.

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Interviews

Bernadine Evaristo

Spinebreakers Meet Bernadine Evaristo

Some of the Spinebreakers crew met up with Bernadine Evaristo to ask her a few questions about her book Blonde Roots.

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Alternative tube map

Londolo Unda Groun Tube

By Olivia Scott-Berry / Spinebreakers Crew

Olivia's tube map with names featured in Blonde Roots

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Olivia's alternative cover for Blonde Roots

Olivia's alternative cover for Blonde Roots

By Olivia Scott-Berry / Spinebreakers Crew

I like the black and white cover but here is an alternative colour version

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Alternative Endings

Claire Duff

Claire's alternative ending for Blonde Roots

By Claire Duff / Spinebreakers Crew

Claire has written an alternative ending for Blonde Roots. It is written using phonetic language style as Bernardine does throughout the book.

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Articles

Imogen's essay on the slave trade

Remembering The Slave Trade

By Imogen Ashfield / Spinebreakers Crew

Imogen's essay inspired by Blonde Roots: 'Remembering the 10 to 12 million Africans taken to Europe and the
Americas as slaves... and their descendants 1444-1888'

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