Perfect for fans of The Black Kids , Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a friendship struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s.
Can their bond survive this impossible divide? Asha Bromfield has written a compelling, emotional and heart-rending story of a friendship during wartime and what it means to fight for your words, your life, and the love of your life..
But Jilly can always choose to escape.
She has no choice.
Blood is shed on the streets in front of her every day.
For Irie, fighting--with her words and her voice--is her only option.
A budding romance between them complicates things further as the push and pull between their two lives becomes impossible to bear.
As tensions build in the streets, so do tensions between the two girls.
But the two bond through a shared love of Reggae music, spending time together at Irie\'s father\'s record store, listening to so-called rebel music that opens Jilly\'s mind to a sound and a way of thinking she\'s never heard before.
Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain safe behind gates.
And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common.
The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider.
It\'s 1976 and Jamaica is on fire.
Perfect for fans of The Black Kids , Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a friendship struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s
