Island Queen: A Novel

"Island Queen is a historical novel in diary form, dramatizing the remarkable real life and times of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, an enslaved woman born on a plantation in the Caribbean in the 18th century who purchased her own freedom from her own father and rose to be a person of money and influence. Though Dorothy was born into bondage and fought her way to freedom, she’s neither superhero, savior nor Cinderella but a singular figure all her own. Kirwan has several intimate relationships in the novel, but they’re complicated and constrained by her position and social boundaries, and Island Queen is no love story."