The Girl With the Golden Shoes

Colin Channer

Original title: The girl with the golden shoes

first published 2007 Akashic Books, 2007 paperback 181 pages

Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life.

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Girl with the Golden Shoes edition · 2007 · Akashic Books · 9781322371191
The Girl With the Golden Shoes paperback · 2007 · Akashic Books · 181 pages · 9781933354262
Girl with the Golden Shoes edition · 2007 · Akashic Books (Ignition) · 181 pages · 9781617752308

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