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Florenz Webbe Maxwell’s Girlcott won 2nd Prize for the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, and the Children and Young Adult Fiction prize in the 2018 Bermuda Literary Awards. It was published by Blue Banyan Books in 2017. Blue Banyan Books: “In this startling debut, Florenz Webbe Maxwell takes a little-known fact about Caribbean history and weaves an engaging tale that speaks eloquently to the contemporary experience. Girlcott takes you beyond the image of Bermuda as a piece of paradise and charts a narrative of resistance, hope and the importance of fighting for change.” Description: A week ago, Desma Johnson had only two things on her mind – in exactly eight days, she would be sixteen years old and to top it off she was in line for a top scholarship, bringing her one step closer to her dreams. Life was perfect and nothing would get in the way of her birthday plans. But it’s 1959 and the secret Progressive League has just announced a boycott of al ....
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Gareth Finighan ( The Royal Gazette) writes, “A book by a Bermudian author has been given the seal of approval by US media magnate Oprah Winfrey.” Girlcott, by Florenz Maxwell, was listed as must-read book in a recent edition of Ms Winfrey’s O Magazine. The coming-of-age novel is set during the 1959 Theatre Boycott and seen through the eyes of Desma Johnson as she approaches her 16th birthday. Ms Maxwell based her book partly on her own experiences. She was a member of the Progressive Group that organised the boycott in order to break down segregation on the island. ....