Pilgrim State
Pilgrim State is the debut novel by Jacqueline Walker.
It is a stunning memoir written as a loving tribute to the authors’ mother, Dorothy. The story begins in 1951 New York with the opening scenes set in the Pilgrim State Mental Facility. Dorothy has been forcibly sectioned and is battling to keep her children and her sanity. She will struggle with both all her life. Eventually Dorothy and her children return to Jamaica before finally making their home in London in the early 1960s. Dorothy and her children are bound together by love and their unique sense of family. This is a story of mothers and daughters and the bonds which can never be broken.
27 June 2008
