The Last Warner Woman

Description:

Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of "warning": the power to protect, inspire, and terrify. But when she is sent to live in England, her prophecies of impending disaster are met with a different kind of fear—people think she is insane and lock her away in a mental hospital. Now an older woman, the spirited Adamine wants to tell her story. But she must wrestle for the truth with the mysterious "Mr. Writer Man," who has a tale of his own to share, one that will cast Adamine's life in an entirely new light. In a story about magic and migration, stories and storytelling, and the New and Old Worlds, we discover it is never one person who owns a story or has the right to tell it.

subjects: Magic,  Storytelling,  Paranormal fiction,  Psychiatric hospital patients,  Jamaicans,  Fiction,  Prophecies,  Women prophets,  Fiction, general,  England, fiction,  Prophets,  Biographical fiction,  Clergy, fiction,  Fiction, biographical,  Great britain, air ministry

Places: England