Raise the Lanterns High

Lakshmi Persaud

first published 2004 Arcadia Books, 2007 paperback 314 pages

"On the eve of her arrainged marriage, Vasti discovers that she is due to marry the rapist she saw in a sugar cane field years earlier. A horrific dilemma befalls her, she can either speak out, defy convention and bring the family name in disrepute or submit silently to her fate. The emotional strain is too much: the bride to be collapses, and while unconscious, travels in a dream from her home in 1960s Trinidad back...

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Raise the Lanterns High paperback · 2007 · Arcadia Books · 314 pages
Raise the Lanterns High paperback · 2007 · BookSurge Publishing · 352 pages · 9781419670299
Raise the Lanterns High hardcover · 2004 · Ulverscroft Large Print · 480 pages · 9781843955115

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