Diana McCaulay A House for Miss Pauline : 'One of the Caribbean's finest writers'

Winner of the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE and shortlisted for the 2025 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE PRIZEThe past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable. Marlon James, Booker Prizewinning author of MOON WITCH, SPIDER KINGDelightful and bighearted . . . It kept me turning pages deep into the night, and left me full of admiration at the end. Claire Adam, GuardianOne of the Caribbeans finest writers . . . Her novels are building blocks of the current Caribbean canon and will be read for years to come. Monique Roffey, author of THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCHWhen the stones of her home begin to rattle and call out to her in the quiet of the night, Pauline Sinclair knows she will not live to see her 100th birthday.From educating herself through stolen books to becoming one of the most successful ganja farmers in the area and raising a family, Pauline has lived a life on her own terms in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village.Yet these whispering walls promise to topple the foundations of her security and exhume Paulines many buried secrets, including the mysterious disappearance of the man who came to claim the very land on which she built her home, stone by stone, from the ruins of a plantation.Compelled to make peace before she dies, Pauline decides to leave the only home she has ever known on a final, desperate mission to uncover truths she could never have imagined . . .Lyrical, funny, eerie and... | Diana McCaulay A House for Miss Pauline : 'One of the Caribbean's finest writers'