I’ve always been interested in the epic story of how sugar,… - Andrea Stuart

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I’ve always been interested in the epic story of how sugar, slavery and settlement shaped individual lives. I just had to find a way to tell it.

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Andrea Stuart (born 1962) is a Barbadian British historian and writer, who was raised in the Caribbean and the UK and now lives in the UK. Her biography of Josephine Bonaparte, entitled The Rose of Martinique, won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004.

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