Our CEO Valerie says: “We’ve long been fans of Bernice’s writing here at Jacaranda after bringing two of her books to the UK market. Her most recent novel, Praise Song for the Butterflies (Jacaranda Books), was longlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2019. She is a three-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA. Sugar is a joy to read, but sadly its tale of black oppression still seems relevant today.”īernice is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels - including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Sugar’s heart is hard and when she inherits a modest home in Bigelow she earns a living the only way she knows how. Forced to turn tricks since she was twelve, she’s lived a life of degradation. Abandoned by her mother as a baby, she was raised by three prostitutes who ran an Arkansas bordello. It still breaks the mould – Sugar is not the tart with a heart of gold, but a young woman utterly hardened by her traumatic past. Madeley says of the story: “So begins this first novel by McFadden, written 20 years ago and now deservedly republished.
It tells a poignant tale set in America’s Deep South in the 1950s. Having debuted in the US back in 2000, it has now been republished across the pond by Vintage Books. Sugar is one of the six-strong lineup to feature in the Autumn Club.
The Richard & Judy Book Club has always had a unique ability to uncover stories that have an enormous impact on readers. Titles are hand-picked by the nation's favourite book-loving couple from their own reading pile. McFadden’s novel Sugar has been chosen for Richard & Judy’s prestigious Book Club. Searing and expertly imagined' TONI MORRISON on Bernice L. 'This book is so engaging and beautiful and intriguing and satisfying that I could not put it down' ELLE 'A page-turning novel guaranteed to be looked back on as a timeless classic' INDEPENDENT Perfect for fans of The Vanishing Half and Where the Crawdads Sing, Sugar is a classic waiting to be rediscovered. As these next-door neighbours become unlikely friends, they wonder if their lives could finally be changing for the better. Then she meets Pearl, a woman trying to forget her own traumas. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past is catching up with her. Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over.
'Poignant and bittersweet, this novel is a joy' Richard & Judy **A RICHARD AND JUDY AUTUMN BOOK CLUB PICK AND THE MOST POWERFUL BOOK YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR**
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