Our June Book of the Month is Eleanor Shearer’s debut novel River Sing Me Home. In Barbados of 1834, a slave called Rachel is told she is free. Reality proves to be different, however, and she flees her plantation to search for the five children taken from her and sold. Rachel traverses across the Caribbean to find out what has become of them and hear their stories. River Sing Me Home, based on true events, is a powerful story of courage and sacrifice that explores what it means to be a mother and to be free.

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