The Long Song Patrick Flanery Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the

Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s

powerful read

As their holiday unfolds

The Janissary Tree is a bloody

gentleman and man or honour

The Long Song Patrick Flanery Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in theYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the